Word: gal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While producers in some other industries were shaving prices (see below), oilmen last week felt confident enough to raise bulk gasoline prices on the Gulf Coast by ½? per gal. More increases are coming. Said a Sinclair Oil spokesman: "As the year goes on, higher refined prices will be inevitable because prices now are totally unrealistic in relation to costs...
From FBI files last week came new evidence powerfully supporting the hypothesis that Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo engineered the international kidnaping of Basque Scholar Jesús de Galíndez from the heart of Manhattan on March 12, 1956. Released were papers of Pilot Gerald Murphy, the onetime Eagle Scout from Eugene, Ore. who flew the kidnap plane and later vanished in the Dominican Republic. Items...
...Notes in Murphy's writing mentioning Galíndez, Arturo Espaillat, former Dominican consul general in New York, and U.S. Private Detectives John Frank and Horace Schmahl...
...jury. Trujillo has refused to waive Espaillat's diplomatic immunity for questioning by the FBI. Instead, Trujillo paid at least $100,000 for an investigation by Manhattan Lawyer Morris Ernst, once famed for defending noble causes, who last month found "not a scintilla of evidence" connecting Murphy and Galíndez...
...during the Suez shutdown, the Justice Department charged that oilmen had gone far beyond that. In early January 1957, prices of Texas crude oil rose generally by 35? per bbl.; shortly thereafter, gasoline, home-heating oil and other refined products went up in most markets by about 1? per gal. Said the Justice Department: "For the purpose and with the intent of raising, fixing and stabilizing prices of crude oil and automotive gasoline, each defendant . . . would increase its posted price of crude oil . . . and each defendant engaged in the marketing of automotive gasoline would increase its prices throughout its marketing...