Word: gal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Association of America, Inc. From their agents, olive oil importers learned that the entire Mediterranean area-Spain, Portugal, Tunisia-has a record olive oil crop this year. Spain alone could ship to the U.S. three million gallons of olive oil. (Total "normal" U.S. yearly imports: 9,000,000 gal.) To olive oil importers this Spanish offer looked like good business. And since three Spanish merchant ships a month are making scheduled sailings to U.S. ports, and Allied Nations ships returning from the Mediterranean recently have been allowed to bring back such nonessentials as a thousand bags of briarwood for pipe...
...bill (about one-fifth of the Treasury's $10.5 billion request) from its nervous Ways & Means Committee. More than half of the new revenue would come from upped postal rates (three cents on in-town letters, eight cents on air mail) and whopping excises (including a $9-per-gal. tax on liquor...
Some 2,800 stockholders in two lately obscure U.S. corporations are about to be inundated with 255,000 bbl. of rye and Kentucky bourbon. That is 12,240,000 gal., or 48,960,000 quarts, or 61,200,000 fifths of Christmas cheer. The cheer...
...save excess-profits taxes, Baltimore's small Tom Moore Distillery last week declared a dividend of 27 gal. of bourbon whiskey for every one of its 17,500 shares...
Even at that, the cost (estimated at more than $7 a gal., excluding personal income taxes and nervous breakdowns) would be a good deal less than the price of any old Paregoric at retail today-if any could be found. For the thirsty the news was all bad: the two hoards were among the last in the country that the whiskey-pinching Big Four distillers have not already snapped...