Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sales" Taxes. Before passing the final bill, the House again rejected (236-to-160) a general Sales Tax on manufacturers. Nevertheless under the guise of excises, it did juggle into the bill a long list of sales taxes on specific products ? 4¢ per gal. on lubricating oil (to yield $35,000,000); 10% on cosmetics ($20,000,000); on furs ($15,000,000); on jewelry ($15,000,000); on sporting goods and cameras ($6,500,000); on yachts & motor boats ($500,000); on firearms and ammunition ($2,500,000). Matches were to be taxed...
...Adopt a 1¢-per-gal. import tax (i. e. tariff) on crude oil and gasoline. Unsuccessfully (190-10-97) did Representatives from the Atlantic seaboard attempt to block this concession to the Southwestern oil producers. Next day the House chaplain opened the session by reciting . . . Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. (Psalm...
Lubricating oil (4 cents per gal...
...Sturges drama, subtitled "A Portrait of a Gal," is full of funny gags arising out of various lowly characters' mispronunciation. Its motivation is as silly as it is trite, but Child of Manhattan is not a play from which you would "recerl...
Another device, sold commercially, consists of an arrangement of 200-mesh screens which slow up the flow of fuel just enough to let the water follow its own inclination to separate from the gasoline. Through it, fuel can be poured at the rate of 55 to 60 gal. per min. Chamois or felt will pass fuel only 20-25 gal...