Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present obligations into the future, the Treasury was in a better position to finance the Deficit with more brief borrowings. About Washington also buzzed talk of new and heavier taxation to be imposed at the next session of Congress. Secretary Mellon was supposed to be considering a 1? per gal. Federal gasoline tax which would net the Treasury $400,000,000. Automobile associations, and State tax authorities who now have a monopoly on this levy, protested loudly. Suggestions from Chairman Will Wood of the House Appropriations Committee that a general sales tax be inaugurated sent department store owners into...
...declared Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes last week in rendering a Supreme Court decision which meant life for New York City and death for six little hamlets in Delaware County, N. Y. By the court's order New York was allowed to divert 440,000,000 gal. per day from certain tributaries of the Delaware River to add to the city's ever-growing water supply (TIME, April 27). By the same decree Arena (pop. 216), Dunraven (pop. 104), Union Grove (pop. 204), Shavertown (pop. 219), Pepacton (pop. 27) and pos-sibly Downsville (pop. 532) will be blotted...
...Dreiser is not an "average earthling." Born in Terre Haute, Ind. of impoverished German parents, Theodore was one of 13 children. Late Songwriter Paul "On the Banks of the Wabash," "My Gal Sal" was the only one beside his younger brother to become famed. Franker than the average, Autobiographer Theodore tells of the religious mania of his father, the hell raising of his brothers, the amorous experiments of his sisters (whom he protects by pseudonyms). Himself very shy, young Theodore trembled when he first saw a girl in tights, but seems to have been in love with love as soon...
...gasoline tax rate ranged from 2¢ per gal. in Massachusetts,? Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Missouri, Wisconsin up to 6^ in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Ohio with a 4^ rate made the largest collection ($37,081,451), Nevada the smallest ($675,012). New York motorists used the most gasoline (1,438,582,-716 gal.), California the next (1,162,337,-545 gal.). The average U. S. motorist burned up 556 gal. in the course of the year, on which his tax was $18.62. (Average automobile registration...
...Last week Massachusetts raised its rate to 3$ per gal...