Word: gal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 60 transatlantic crossings, made a Casablanca-to-Los Angeles run in the same plane with a 250-h.p. six-cylinder engine and also broke a record (TIME, June 15). This time he switched to a 180-h.p. four-cylinder engine, filled his wing tanks with 60 gal. of fuel, loaded four additional tanks (300 gal.) in the cabin and fuselage. With no supplies except three jugs of water, tea and coffee, he set out across the water...
ATOMIC POWER PLANTS, of practical, small size, are coming along fast. North American Aviation has developed 220-lb. reactor that is no bigger than a 5-gal. milk can but produces 3 kw. of power. Small power package was originally designed for space satellites...
Still Life. In San Francisco, U.S. Revenooer Jack Courtney investigated a cache of illegal moonshine in Chinatown, emptied three 5-gal. pickle jars of the grog down a drain, found that the dregs consisted of two chickens, two hawks and a monkey...
MOONSHINE WHISKY sales last year rose to record $1 billion, and 55,000,000 gal. moonshine production accounted for between 20% and 25% of all liquor consumed in U.S. Government's losses: $750 million...
...stop till it gets to Custer, and we'll all look like Custer's men after the battle." At midmorning next day, the men were still fighting. Two Forest Service planes-a converted 6-24 and a Navy torpedo bomber-began bombing hot spots with 500-gal. loads of a slurry made of bentonite and water. Slowly the fire fighters won control, and by midafternoon Deadwood's residents were told to come back home...