Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt brought home to the U. S. press (which for the first time in 19 days met him last week aboard the U. S. S. Houston at Balboa, C. Z.) two stories that in Ulysses' day would certainly have been referred to the oracles for interpretation: 1) At Galápagos, on shore leave, seamen from the Houston beheld two huge hawks swooping down upon a herd of wild goats. Each hawk seized a kid in its talons, started to flap away. Hurling stones at the hawks, the sailors made them drop the kids, which they took aboard...
When Messrs. Dun & Bradstreet reported last week that U. S. retail sales for July were 16% below 1937, they added an explanation: "excessive heat replacing heavy rainfall as a deterrent to shoppers." Ice cream consumption in seven days was 500,000 gal. above normal. No adequate figures were available on the consumption of gasoline, soft drinks, railroad tickets and many another commodity, but it was evident that extraordinary weather had made substantial losses and profits for businessmen. And last week for the second in succession, most of the U. S. east of the Rockies lay sweltering under a heat & humidity...
After spending $250,000 drilling for oil in England, Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd. recently opened a promising field at Dalkeith, ten miles from Edinburgh. Last week Anglo-American made its first shipment (2,000 gal.) from Dalkeith to its refinery at Purfleet on the Thames. It took the biggest "shot" ever exploded in the British Isles, over 500 lb. of gelatinous nitroglycerin, to bring in the new Scottish field. Result was the biggest yield of oil thus far struck in the British Isles; at 750 feet the yield of one well is a modest 10 bbl. a day. Usable...
...potentialities would also be super. By stepping its gas capacity up to 42,500 gal. it could fly 12,000 miles, carry ten bombs weighing a ton apiece, as well as a "sizable" torpedo boat to maintain surface contacts or search suspected ships...
...Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics-that it can be stored indefinitely and that it is "a safe, constant, efficient and lucrative source of blood for transfusions." Estimating the recovery of four ounces of blood per delivery, the total saving of blood in U. S. childbirths would aggregate some 60,000 gal. per year...