Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reitinger, native who had made his fortune in the U. S., told the official village announcer to go about with his drum, invite the whole village to the local public house for free drinks, free music. Joseph Reitinger paid for 3 bbl. of wine, 2 bbl. of beer, 7 gal. of spirits. Next night he wished to do the same thing. Officials banned the party: they had been obliged to break up 17 fights...
Figures released last week indicated that more than 84,000,000 gal. of denatured alcohol were used industrially in the U. S. last year. Biggest consumers were manufacturers of lacquers, lacquer thinner, solvents (12,583,943 gal.). In the manufacture of nitrocellulose 10,461,860 gal. were used. More than 9,000,000 gal: went into vinegar, more than 7,000,000 gal. into ethyl acetate (necessary for dye-stuffs...
...thus shunted back through the nickel wires, to register on the graduated scale of the dial exactly what percentage of fuel is not being burned. Dr. Hutchison estimated the U. S. might save $1,000,000,000 worth of fuel per year (at a market price of 20? per gal.) by universal use of his invention...
...Rose, head of the Spanish department and chairman of the University Athletic Association-each made scholarly contributions to the art and practice of drinking. Professor Yandell, interested in the toxicological aspect of tippling, announced in the Yale News that a tosspot would have to down two litres (one-half gal.) of 4% beer every hour to become intoxicated. "General experience shows," amended Pedagog Yandell, "that few persons care to drink two litres in an hour. Under my definition [that 80 cc. of alcohol can be absorbed in the system in one hour], therefore, beer containing 3% or 4% of alcohol...
...home, not of the sale of grapes or grapejuice for winemaking. When fortnight ago his Bureau of Prohibition Compilation obtained figures showing that all U. S. wine grapes produced last year were made into wine, that U. S. annual wine consumption has risen to 118,329,300 gal. from 52,418,430 gal. in 1914, he spoke again. He explained that any big sale of grapes for wine-making would encounter trouble from his Bureau. He said: "It is all a question of intent. . . . Even the sale of large amounts of sugar to a person known to be using...