Word: gal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columnists. "Hedda Hopper I like. She's a gallant, crazy old gal with lots of steam. But Louella Parsons I don't like. Louella used to be a reporter with me in Chicago; she was one of the worst reporters the town ever knew . . . She's positively one of the most sad things in Hollywood. She makes it seem like a town full of boss lovers-which it is. She bows when the boss is not there, just his shadow...
...plastic plumbing to save more money, along with an aerobic sewage-disposal system (including garbage grinder) that greatly reduces water use. A newly designed toilet needs only 1 gal. of water at a time compared to 6 gal. for current models. Electrical wiring through the house comes in a preassembled package, ready for much faster installation that cuts high-cost labor...
...saving carburetor and new rear-axle-gear ratio, which it said "contribute to 10% greater economy of operation." Ford came out with four engines ranging from 145 h.p. to 300 h.p., said its lowest-powered, six-cylinder model will get better than 20 miles per gal...
Studebaker-Packard last week showed the press its 175-in.-long economy Lark, which gets 22 to 30 miles per gal. Studebaker said the six-cylinder, 90-h.p. models will be priced "below $2,000," but there will be higher-priced models with an op-tional V8, 180-h.p. engine. More than 25,000 orders have poured in to Studebaker, which produced only 44,056 cars during the '58 model year...
...bumblefoots around the local talent (Felicia Farr) by night, but hits stormy weather on both fronts. His chief cook (Walter Matthau), a sardonic old coot with a mania for cinnamon rolls, marries the girl. Then Cookie ships out for convoy duty, and Griffith finds himself heating up both the gal and the gallery...