Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning when Henry Linden brings his bride Manella home from India to live amongst his old British family tree, awaiting the building of his own little nest, we travel space through her affair with his brother, and the resulting complications to where his brother's original country-gal wife, loving her husband and still liking his seductress, walks into the burning barn and thus out of the picture. The following nervous breakdowns, maddened raving, etc., turn what started out a very clever snappy job into a rather morbid dissection of human passion and pain...
...Herald & Examiner: "Each pound of fat contains 4,500 ft. of blood vessels. So a person 30 lb. overweight has 25 mi. of extra blood vessels." Result of the 21st annual month-long fast during which Harry Wills, walnut-colored retired prizefighter, drank only 1½ to 2 gal. water daily (TIME, April 23) was a 40 lb. loss of weight (245 lb. to 205 lb.). On one occasion "I broke my fast. I was painting one of my apartments, and I was afraid the fumes might turn my stomach. So I drank a bottle of milk to settle...
...response to a Senate resolution the Federal Trade Commission last week reported that the oil code had cost U. S. motorists $160,550,000. In 272 cities covered by the survey up to Jan. 31, gasoline prices had risen an average of 1.04? a gal. since July 1, a month before the code was signed. The Commission also reported that combined State and Federal taxes, which have nothing to do with the code, averaged 5.14? a gal., or $700,000,000 annually. Highest State taxes were in Florida and Tennessee (7?), lowest in Connecticut. District of Columbia, Missouri and Rhode...
...pointed out that ten years ago no one thought it possible to get bromine from the ocean on a commercial basis. Today his corporation, with Dow Chemical Co., operates a plant south of Wilmington, N. C. on the Cape Fear River which every day sucks in 30,000,000 gal. of sea water from which, with the aid of chlorine and sulphuric acid, it frees 15,000 lb. of bromine (worth 36 cents per lb.) for use in antiknock gasoline...
...costs about $1.50 to make a case (3 gal.) of raw whiskey. Barreling, bottling, casing and four years' storage are estimated to bring the cost up to about $7.50 per case. Taxes of about $11 make it $18.50. Wholesalers and retailers must cover operating expenses and license fees, but what happens is that every one along the line from distiller through middleman to retailer figures his profits not on whiskey costs alone but on cost plus taxes doubled and redoubled...