Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prisoners being held for trial. Because of justices' vacations in July, Prohibition cases on Federal Court dockets had increased from 22,173 to 22,497. The average Prohibition violator sentenced in July received 152.6 days in gaol, his average fine was $199.59. Precisely 1,339,277 gal. of beer and 111,-672 gal. of "spirits" were confiscated; also 724 automobiles, 11 boats, 1,963 stills, 12,353 fermenters...
...When his private 100,000,000-gal. reservoir at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. went almost dry, John Davison Rockefeller got permission to tap the Tarrytown water supply...
Members of the 67th Congress (1921-23) were not surprised last week to hear that their most eccentric colleague, Manuel Herrick, 54, Republican, of the Eighth Oklahoma District, had been arrested by Federal Dry agents while firing for $15 per week the boiler of a 500-gal. still in the remote reaches of St. Mary's County, Md. They well remembered Congressman Herrick's notorious exploits during his two years at the Capitol-the beauty contest he ran from his office in the House Office Building which resulted in a breach of promise suit against...
...Jersey. Vacuum and Standard reasons for merger are that they must face severe competition in New England and New York from Sir Henri Deterding's Royal Dutch Shell Oil. Testimony showed that Shell's 1929 sales in the district were 7,175,241 bbl. of 42 gal. each. Combined Standard and Vacuum 1929 sales in the same district were more than 17,500,000 bbl. of 50 gal. each...
...Laverne Fator, No. 2 U. S. jockey, up on Patroness: a duel with Earl Sande, No. 1 U. S. jockey, on Flying Gal, in the Hanover handicap at Aqueduct, N. Y., by a half-length...