Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a House bill to continue for another year the 1? per gal. gasoline tax, to reduce local postage from 3? to 2?, to authorize the President to adjust other postal rates as he sees fit; sent it to conference. The House bill transferred the 3% electricity tax from consumer to producer. The Senate bill put a 2% tax on the producer of commercial and domestic electricity, a i% tax on the industrial consumer...
...emergency means of raising some $40,000,000 in revenue. Its proceeds were to be spent either on jobless relief or school expenses. *Only two kinds of retailers were exempt from the tax: farmers selling their own products and filling stations where gasoline is already taxed 3? per gal...
...possession of the premises. "I'm the receiver," announced Mr. Duffy. "Well," said the agents, "look what you received." Inside the spacious house, vacant for years but well cared for, Mr. Duffy was dazzled to behold the burnished copper and carefully painted ironwork of a 5,000-gal. alcohol still, capable of filling a battery of 19-bbl. vats daily. Downstairs was a 5,000-gal. molasses vat. Throughout the house, parquet flooring and plate glass mirrors had been scrupulously polished. The control room for this $100,000 plant, which had taken six weeks to build and had been...
...County Commissioners' auditorium, crammed to the doors, spokesmen argued themselves hoarse for more cash and food relief, free light and water, 5,000 gal. of gasoline for a motor march on the State Capitol at Olympia. Just as hoarsely the Commissioners argued the impossibility of granting their demands...
...Fairey-Napier. But it was equipped with improvements learned from the previous experiences. A "robot" steering device was installed. Running gear was made double-strong for rough landings. A cabin hatch was cut for observations of the stars. Fuel tanks were built to hold 1,000 gal. In the cabin was a bed for the pilot off watch. Experts spent months in plotting the course for favorable topography and weather...