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Word: gal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closely guarded technical area of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is a building on the mysteriously named DP Site. In one of its rooms Technician Cecil W. Kelley, 38, was working alone last week, adding a solvent to a 225-gal. tank. It was a routine part of a process to recover plutonium from waste materials. During his ten years at Los Alamos he had done the same chore about 75 times. This time was different. When he turned on the stirring apparatus, a bright blue flash bloomed out of the tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blue Flash at DP Site | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...covered earth" was ruled by "giant serpents and tiny-headed monsters." Weeping in the Chinese Window describes the cruel seduction by a tiny-headed monster in human form of a spinster who has never suspected the existence of primeval, serpentine masculinity. A Summer for the Dead features a lusty gal who is rejected by a man dead from the waist down and settles for one who is only dead from the neck up-totally blind and nearly stone-deaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strange Fruit | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

With the frazzled stare of a gal who wants to wash that fiber right out of her hair, svelte Capital Hostess Gwen Cafritz unwoolled herself after posing implausibly as Santa at a benefit. Supposedly a surprise to the guests, Gwen's gambit had been detected by ear-to-the-martini-tray Columnist George Dixon, who ungallantly told all in the Washington Post and Times Herald the day before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

BIGGEST U.S.-RUSSIAN DEAL in past decade will send $13.5 million worth of Soviet-made benzene to Dow Chemical Co. over next two years. Dow will get the benzene (used in synthetic rubber, cleaners, plastics) for 25? per gal., v. U.S. price of 31?. Company will still buy 80% of its benzene from domestic sources, does not intend to let its Russian imports run over 10% of its supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Carte. A portable gasoline station for shopping-center parking lots was demonstrated by American Petrofina Inc. in Oklahoma City. The battery-powered, 10½-ft.-long cart pumps two grades of gas from two tanks with a 300-gal. capacity, sells oil, dispenses air for tires, water for batteries and radiators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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