Word: gal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Powder for the Future. Anheuser-Busch is now geared to produce millions of pounds a year. The process: 125 lb. of yeast is planted in a vat containing 7,000 gal. of water, a ton and a half of molasses (on whose sugar the yeast feeds) and ammonia (which provides nitrogen that the yeast converts into protein). The mixture is kept warm, stirred by 1,000 cu. ft. of air a minute (without air the yeast would ferment the sugar). After twelve hours the prodigiously growing yeast, having multiplied its original weight 16 times, is a ton of flavorsome food...
...BILL and REE PAGE with that still "newlywed look" talking to DUSTY RHODES and his Lil Gal, TERRY, but it seems to me that DUSTY is holding back on introductions to the Gang ... It could be that he has given her a sweetheart...
...different slang words were used. Examples: babe, bracelets, chee, crack pot, darn, dawgoned, diggity, flatfoot, framed, gal, gents, gorsh, heck, haywire, holy-mackerel, hyuh, janes, migosh, nope, nuts, O.K., phooie, scram, shux, tipoff...
...Studied the practices of big private motor-fleet operators, applied them to Federal auto fleets for an estimated annual saving of 750,000 gal. of lubricating...
Have listeners become surfeited with the continuous problems of Helen Trent and Our Gal Sunday? Are there too many serials on the air? Does the public want other types of daytime radio entertainment...