Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...activators). By this method lightweight derivatives formerly wasted or diverted to by-products are made into high-grade fuel. Trade papers pointed out that if all gaseous hydrocarbons produced in cracking were utilized by the Phillips patented process, the extra gasoline output would be about 1,000,000,000 gal. per year...
Arrowplane's speed exceeds requirements by 4 m. p. h. It lands at 40 m. p. h., stops in 30 ft., gets 13½ mi. per gal. of fuel, can supposedly be flown with safety by a novice after two hours' instruction. Secretly tested for six months on a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert, the strange-looking craft was last week publicly demonstrated for the first time in Los Angeles, where its unconventional behavior alarmed experienced observers until they became used to it. "It leaped into the air," wrote one correspondent, "like a chicken going over...
Last week, on the first leg of a transcontinental "economy tour" Mr. Cummins drove from Manhattan to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. to attend the annual meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Distance: 496 mi. Fuel cost: 74?, plus 38? tax. Mileage: 40.2 mi. per gal...
...away. Capt. Edwin C. Musick fumigated the cabin from tip to tail to prevent any mosquitoes being taken along. Midway has never had any, does not want any. The plane was loaded with enough fuel to fly to Midway and back nonstop. Also loaded were 5 gal. of ice cream and several cinemas for the Midway colonists...
...Negro fieldhand, making tracks across country one Saturday night to see his gal, is shot by a whimsical sheriff because he objects to being run in for vagrancy...