Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sober townfolk out of their skins. Two blocks from Pasadena's busiest corner, Crown City Plating Co. electroplates chromium, gold, brass, silver, copper. A swart little man named Wallace Foreman was mixing sulphuric acid and glycerin to make an electrolyte for plating. Already in the tank were 75 gal. of acid and 2 gal. of glycerin. Thinking to add more acid, Wallace Foreman picked up a 3-gal. container, dumped in the contents. Unluckily the container held not sulphuric but nitric acid. Nitric acid plus sulphuric acid plus glycerin makes nitroglycerin...
When the mixture fumed and sputtered like a devil's cauldron, Wallace Foreman realized his error. He bellowed. Seven other men came running, hastily agreed that 9 gal. of nitroglycerin had been inadvertently manufactured. Nine ounces, they knew, was enough to blow them to bits. There was a mad rush for telephones...
...venerable Scottish distiller, who makes 70% of Britain's whiskey, could not restrain himself from expressing astonishment that the U. S. Government, "which still has an unbalanced budget," taxes its domestic spirits only $2 per gal., against Britain's tax of 72 shillings sixpence...
...ladies as a "rattlesnake." Rector Livingston said he had not. He said Miss Julia Smith had told someone that he ought to be "behind the bars." Miss Julia Smith said she had not. Someone said Miss Smith had once broken up a Ladies Aid Meeting by tossing a 5-gal. gasoline can across the room. "I never heard of such a thing," snapped Miss Smith...
...plot is not too original, but is hardly noticed. The little gal falls into the hands of shady racing characters and by her juvenile winsomeness reforms even the most hardened of the toughs. As the chief male character, Adolphe Menjou is satisfactory, and Charles Bickford is his usual self as Big Stove, the head of the guys...