Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liquor business, overproduction really means not just overproduction but more overproduction than seems advisable. From Repeal to June 30, 1934, total U. S. production of whiskey was 62,352,666 proof gal. while only 18,875,964 gal. were consumed. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, production was 149,112,923 gal., consumption 50,780,940 gal. In the six months ending December 31, 1935, production was 96,363,859, consumption 36,242,929. Any other industry which deliberately produced three times as much as it sold-and went on doing it for two and a half years...
...section of the Los Angeles sewer system which no live eye has seen since the city's discharge started flowing through it, 220,000,000 gal. per hr. at the rate of 3 ft. per sec., is the 6-mi. tunnel under the Del Rey Hills to the ocean. Last week Reuben Brown prepared to travel those six subterranean miles in a non-sinkable 9-ft. punt...
...Chicago's Anti-Cruelty Society. The barkers for Ideal Dog Food were housed in a 26-ft.-wide shed with triangular glass front projecting from the sign's centre. To keep them comfortable there had been installed $6,000 worth of airconditioning. There were also a 30-gal. water tank, blue-lighted kennels, a drinking fountain, awnings, Venetian blinds, sleeping quarters for an attendant in the rear. Only pedigreed dogs-to be furnished free by members of the Midwest Puppy Match Association- will be displayed. Occupants will be changed weekly. Last week's Boston terriers were...
...interest the Exposition will have a force of rangerettes complete with chaps and 10-gal. hats, who will act as ushers, tell timid matrons where to find comfort stations, etc. As official hostess was chosen 21-year-old Frances Nalle, with the title of Texas "Bluebonnet Girl."† And last week at San Antonio, Governor Allred crowned Janice Jarrat, artists' model (whose portrait appears on the cover of June Cosmopolitan) as the "Sweetheart of Texas Centennial" with the duty of acting as mistress of ceremonies at all the Fair's broadcasts, appearing at all major Centennial celebrations during...
...corn "gluten," and starch, which are separated by flotation. The corn "gluten" which contains approximately 30% unremoved starch, is combined with the hull, fibre and steep water to make a product - corn gluten feed, which is sold to the dairy industry. For each bushel of corn ground, approximately 7 gal. of 4°-5° of Be' "steep water" are obtained. Based on a yearly industry grind of 60,000,000 bu., the amount of "steep water" amounts to approximately 400,000,000 gal. instead of quarts as published...