Word: gal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specify a bottle of Préfontaines to a sommelier will make his eyeballs roll. Préfontaines is very much a vin ordinaire, the sturdy stuff that washes down the bread and cheese and accounts for 90% of the 1.5 billion gal. of wine drunk by Frenchmen every year. It will never make a select wine list, but it has made another important listing: the shares of the Préfontaines company, D.M.S., have gone on the Paris Bourse for the first time. This is an indication of the success of Préfontaines in France...
Bombed with Beer. Préfontaines, with annual sales of 52 million gal. worth $51 million, controls just 4% of the French market, but that is more than any competitor has. And only Préfontaines has Marc Henrion, 39, a Harvard Business School graduate, as director-general. At Harvard he distinguished himself by bombing the Baker Library with empty beer cans as he flew over it in his old Fairchild. Harvard grounded him but graduated him too ('50), and the next year he had a chance to apply his learning when André Dubonnet, of the company that...
...arrived 40 lbs. lighter-down from 200 lbs.-and with 13 gal. of water still in the hold. To the adventurer, the climax was the saddest part of the voyage. "Only twelve miles to go," he tells Tinkerbelle, whom he regarded throughout as "my dearest companion," and then he adds: "The thought brought on a faint stabbing of pain...
...strength with the Rhodesian rebels, who had been stalling in hopes of a Tory victory. For his part, Ian Smith seemed content enough to explore the possibility of escaping from an increasingly uncomfortable domestic situation, which last week saw the price of petrol increase another 17?, to 84? per gal. The discussions, expected to last for at least two weeks, were mainly on practical procedural matters, such as an agenda for possible full-fledged negotiations and whether Rhodesia would be required to renounce its independence before any official conference could begin. Neither side was saying if any progress was being...
...while the other Fords maintained a slightly slower pace. At that rate, Shelby figured, each of the Mark Us would need new front disc brakes during the race. So his pit crews practiced until they could change both brake units and four tires, fill the sump, pump in 42 gal. of gas and clean the windshield...