Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Higher surtaxes in $3,000-to-$100,000 brackets: $226,000,000. About 30 excise taxes on farm products at rates lower than the extinct processing taxes: $221,000,000. An increase of the Federal gasoline tax from 1? to 1½?per gal.: $80,000,000. Louder groans than before rose from the House committee. Compared to these burdensome taxes, with their low yield, the President's tax on undivided profits seemed the least of many evils...
...under most of the State. By drilling wells to the limestone, water can be tapped and in many places brought to the surface like a stream from a firehose. So much water flows through the limestone that, for example, Silver Springs, close to Ocala, pours out 400,000,000 gal. per day, about as much as New York City consumes in 24 hours...
...Unseasonably mild weather caused a break in anti-freeze alcohol, the price dropping 5? per gal. to 44?. Of the 36,000,000 gal. of anti-freeze compounds used annually in the U. S. about 30,000,000 gal. are alcohol. Biggest anti-freeze company is U. S. Industrial Alcohol...
...past six months Alaska's 60,000 inhabitants have tucked away 700,000 gal. of alcoholic beverages. Last week, on Repeal's birthday, a group of the more responsible Eskimos at Nome besought the Territorial Board of Liquor Control to make it a crime even to give one of their tribesmen liquor...
Even with gasoline at a new war price of $1.20 per gal. many Italians continued to drive their cars, but the Fascist Press clarioned "Use your car only for business! On pleasure bent take a train or a bus." Excited schoolchildren, marshaled by their teachers, shrilled "We want no heat in our schoolrooms all winter!" Outside school hours Fascist moppets of both sexes scampered about collecting scrap metal for II Duce. He contributed quantities of bronze busts of himself for melting into bullets. A Royal Duke chipped in three pounds of gold. While priests collected wedding rings for the State...