Word: gal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a very funny picture playing at the Brattle Theatre this week. The longest of reading period assignments and most foul exam schedule imaginable should not keep any true lover of the constant guffaw away from His Gal Friday...
...that engineers have been working on for five years and have tested for thousands of hours. It includes such features as overhead valves, a four-barrel carburetor, and a compression ratio boosted from 7.2-1 to 7.5-1. The car's performance: 16 to 20 miles to the gal lon and a top speed of more than 100 m.p.h...
Self-Service. In Grand Rapids, Mich., sheriff's deputies arrested Nils Bundy after they traced a 200-ft. garden hose leading from a service station to his home, discovered that he had been pumping gasoline into a 30-gal. drum in his basement...
GASOLINE price wars will probably get livelier because of the unseasonably high stocks on hand. In Oklahoma City, prices dropped from 30?to 23? a gal. and one eight-station chain has suspended operations; in some Pennsylvania areas, prices for regular grades have been chopped more than half, from 26? to 12½?a gal...
...Paris' Franc-Tiretir: "No one is really an enemy of wine-in France-but it is hard to ask Frenchmen to drink more than their bellyful for the sole purpose of draining off the harvest surplus." Frenchmen, already the world's biggest consumers of alcoholic beverages (seven gals, per person per year, on a pure alcohol basis, v. one gal. per American), drank about 1.2 billion gals, of wine last year, 75% of what they put away in prewar years. Yet wine production was about the same as before the war (1.9 billion gals.), almost a third...