Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high. Its great metal hull is suspended beneath a 157-ft. wing span. Stubby sea wings extend 13 ft. from the sides of the hull directly below the main span, contribute to the strength and stability of the whole ship and provide storage space for 4,260 gal. of fuel. In the nose is its anchor hatch, dual flight control station, bridge, navigation and radio rooms. Three passenger compartments and a lounge in the centre of the hull provide space for 45 passengers by day, can be converted into sleeping accommodation for 26 by night. Fanciest gadget is a lounge...
Stand-In (Walter Wanger). "You wouldn't want a star to endure the heat of the lights while they set the cameras and microphones, would you? So they dig up a gal ... to stand in for the star while all this torture goes on. . . . When everything's set the star, cool and immaculate, puts her dainty little feet in the chalkmarks. The standin, worn and wilted, fades out of the picture...
...close relative of the alcohol used to keep motorcar radiators from freezing, never before put to this purpose. Whether diethylene glycol is poisonous by itself or in this solution was not made clear last week. The one indisputable fact was that S. E. Massengill Co. made up several 80-gal. batches of sulfanilamide solution. This was labeled an elixir, a technical pharmacological term for a drug sweetened and dissolved in alcohol, and shipped to 375 retailers. The retailers, one as far away as Puerto Rico, dispensed this "elixir" with and without prescriptions, in reddish brown flasks whose yellow labels read...
...under the leadership of a onetime Austin salesman named Roy Samuel Evans who has had a genuine Horatio Alger career (see p. 63). Made up as coupé, roadster or truck, the Bantam "60" is 120 in. overall, has four cylinders, is claimed to get 60 mi. per gal. of gas, 60,000 mi. per set of tires, 60 m.p.h. speed. Production begins this month, is scheduled for 10,000 for the coming year, 60% trucks, 40% passenger models...
...deposits of Natrona, Pa., to manufacture alkaline salts of soda. Its process was a failure. Oil found on its land helped to keep it alive for a few years-it became the first company to export refined petroleum from the U. S.-500 bbl. to London at 5? a gal. But "Salt" has paid dividends every year since 1863, and last week was able to announce the most profitable year in its history: earnings of $11.79 a share on 150,000 shares of stock...