Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insure the success of their first show, Carrollton businessmen had gone over to Lexington to fetch grey-thatched, handsome old James T. Looney, best brewer of burgoo stew in northern Kentucky. Over his open air vats, "Burgoomaster" Looney, proud of his 500-gal. iron kettle that was used in the Civil War to make gunpowder, had spent a day and a night brewing 1,500 gallons of burgoo.* Every last dipperful was exhausted before the crowd settled down to a program of speechmaking. On the platform, along with many another bigwig, were Carrollton's Ralph Malcolm Barker, president...
...Jersey where the gasoline war burned hottest Administrator Ickes dispatched a lieutenant to investigate and intervene. By last week joyous Jersey motorists were filling their tanks for less than 10? per gal., tax included. New areas were affected, and in Philadelphia the battle spread to fuel oil, which dropped 1½? per gal. to 5½?. But in East Texas the Federal pressure brought quick results. This week some 50 East Texas refiners agreed to up wholesale gasoline to 11? per gal., 6? above last week's war price...
...touched off by the flood of oil produced in excess of state quotas. By last week the only apparent check to price-slashing was a clause in the Oil Code limiting cuts to no more than one every 24 hours. Retail prices were off from 2? to 9? per gal...
...mining town of 1848 he was the first to sell water to citizens who lacked a nearby spring or well. He barreled his water in Sausalito, barged it across the Golden Gate, packed it on burros to peddle through muddy streets for as much as $1.50 per gal. "Caramba!" would cry astonished Juan Miguel Aguirre if he could return to San Francisco next week to see one of the world's great water systems begin pouring into the metropolis a colossal stream from a far-away mountain. Canyon. Across the State from San Francisco, in what is now Yosemite...
...From the Southwest, where some independents swore they would give it away if buyers would pay the taxes, the price-cutting spread to the great Midwest area. There the majors and the independent distributors cut back at each other three times. In Springfield, Mass. the cut was 4? per gal. In New York City it came down ½?. Standard of New Jersey slashed off 4.4? in some of its territories between the Hudson River and the Potomac. And wherever the price-cutting started each & every company in that area was helplessly drawn...