Word: gal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FUEL TAX of 2? a gal. stands good chance of being boosted this year. Airlines are protesting on ground of falling profits, but they must fight combined weight of President Eisenhower (who requested a 3½? rate) and heavily taxed train and truck lines...
Married. Harry Lillis (Bing) Crosby, 53, granddad of U.S. crooners, multimillionaire golfer, horseman, father of four sons (24 to 19); and curvaceous Cinemactress Kathy Grant (real name: Olive Kathryn Grandstaff), 23, who first met him during a 1953 interview as a part-time columnist ("A Texas Gal in Hollywood") for Texas Oilman Glenn McCarthy's string of newspapers; he for the second time (his first wife, Musicomedienne Dixie Lee, died in 1952), she for the first; in Las Vegas...
...million for new hangars and a freight terminal to make Logan even more efficient. Next month Dallas' Love Field will open a $7,500,000 terminal building with facilities for 6,000,000 passengers annually (current volume: 3,000,000). The city has also built a 500,000-gal. underground fuel-storage system, and concrete taxi aprons and loading ramps thick enough for heavier jetliners than any yet designed. New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco also expect to be ready with long runways and big terminals. Though San Francisco's new $14 million terminal is only three...
...bids for new supplies of Wyoming heavy crude by 8? per bbl. and Indiana Standard cut its price to Arkansas producers by 10? per bbl. At consumer levels a rash of price wars from New Orleans to New Jersey cut service station prices as low as 14.9? per gal. before taxes...
...Three new models of Hans Glas's Goggomobil. The T 600 line is expected to sell for about $1,000, has a bigger (25-h.p.) engine than the older models, goes faster (up to 70 m.p.h.) but burns more gas (maximum: 45 miles per gal...