Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affiliate of the California Grape Control Board whose members were, at the moment when Director Woodcock spoke, harvesting a bumper grape crop of 870,000 tons, representing an investment of some $300,000,000. Of this crop 450,000 tons, enough to make 67,000,000 gal. of juice, were wine grapes. To market this vast amount, the Grape Control Board had announced in the September Produce News that it contemplated a huge advertising campaign, in which: "The trade will be contacted daily and necessary steps taken to acquaint all classes of consumers with their rights under existing laws...
...significant. If, as some critics advised, the ghastly hospital episode were omitted from the play, the drama would never reach any height at all. Roadside is written and played with intense and commendable sincerity. Playwright Lynn Riggs has written the saga of a Texas superman who wears a 10-gal. hat, bursts out of gaols, woos and wins Miss Ruthelma Stevens (the comely somnambulist of Hotel Universe). Unfortunately, the speeches and posturings which the cast must affect are not of the sort which result in success in the theatre. Roadside must be recorded as one of the few missteps...
...Senator Curtis as his [Curtis-for-President] campaign manager for New York." Soon afterward, the article said, Curtis-booster Glaser asked Administrator Campbell to approve a whiskey permit for a pharmacy in the Cornish Arms Hotel (against which padlock proceedings later were brought) and a permit for withdrawing 700 gal. of alcohol per month for Spa Chemical Co. (which later was caught illegally diverting this alcohol...
...mind last week was a comparison of the two feats-Lindbergh's & Coste's. Lindbergh, alone in a Ryan monoplane powered by a 200 h. p. Wright Whirlwind motor, without radio, flew eastward 3,610 mi. in 33 hr. 29 min. His fuel load was 425 gal., his average speed 107 m. p. h. An earth inductor compass, a magnetic compass on the conventional instrument board and maps were his navigating facilities. The westward flight, as every layman knows, is immeasurably more difficult largely because of prevailing headwinds. The Question Mark, radio equipped...
...long skirt have paved the way for the waltz. Furthermore, the middle-aged and elderly are tired of being ignored as in the passing era of jerky jazz dancing and are insisting upon steps that do not try to make a jumping jack of the broker and high kicking gal out of the grandmother...