Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eggs; refused a pile of Pittsburgh Post-Gazettes offered by William Herman Mylander, Washington representative of the Paul Block paper, just in case Mr. Justice Black had not read the expose of his Klan activities in the paper of their origin; failed to recognize in spite of his 10 gal. hat Post-Gazette Reporter Ray Sprigle who had written the series; and retired to break his fast with Editor Max Lerner of the Nation, which had just received a demand for retraction from Publisher Block's attorney because it had accused Mr. Block of "gum-shoeing...
...corn from $1.58 to $1.21 per bu. ; cotton from 15¼? to 8½? per lb.; rubber from 27? to 17¼ per lb.; steel scrap from $23.50 to $18 per ton; cocoa from 13? to 7? per lb.; turpentine from 50½? to 30½? per gal...
...none other than the ever zealous City of Chicago itself which, broke as usual, submitted a bill for not part but all of the $241,000, plus an extra $27,000 for good measure. This bill, Chicago's Corporation Counsel urbanely explained, was for 3,351,655,000 gal. of water from Lake Michigan which the city claimed it had sold, not given, to the Exposition. The Exposition's answer: In 1932 the city had passed an order "that there shall be no charge against the Exposition for water"; the Exposition had paid all equipment & pumping costs...
...Medical School in Washington busily prepared this new preventive. To avoid adulteration they worked in glass cages, sterilized each morning by live steam and ventilated all day by sterile, conditioned air. Before the men entered the cages, which contained no germs except those in test tubes, flasks and 5-gal. demijohns, they changed every stitch of clothing...
...interested in politics, although his views were "vaguely to the Left''; too disillusioned to write good books, although his novels were critical successes; too restless to sleep, although he smoked opium. When Bianca's young cousin Peter Cable, fresh from Oxford, gets tangled up with the Galère, they tear him apart in no time. Both Louis and Peter are arrested in an opium den, involved in a scandal that cannot be laughed off. Peter dies in a sanitarium while Bianca, who has tried to save him, and Louis, who let him go down...