Word: gal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unofficial Watch. Peter King sent an assistant on a rush trip to the Virgin Islands; soon the aide was back with jugs of sludge precipitated chemically from 2,500 gal. of six-month-old rain water. The stuff was faintly hot, containing the radioactive cerium and yttrium that are typical products of nuclear fission. As of then, King knew he had a quick and easy way to detect nuclear explosions...
Also arrayed against the consumer - the only one who stands to gain by lower prices - is a whole range of forces with vested interests in keeping up prices. Gasoline at the pump is fair game for a nation seeking revenue; out of the average price of 31? per gal. in the U.S., the consumer pays about 10? in taxes. Independents in the U.S. - which produces the world's most costly oil - pressured the Government to impose import quotas to protect them from cheaper foreign oil. Such regulatory groups as the Texas Railroad Commission make a concerted effort to prevent...
...reflection on the integrity of the entire industry." The Florida Citrus Commission called for punishment of Tropicana "in a degree commensurate with the seriousness of the offenses." Tropicana President Anthony T. Rossi admitted that he had ordered cane sugar syrup added to about half of a 400,000-gal. shipment bound for New York "in a moment of weakness and temptation" because the juice was more tart than usual. He added that Tropicana will not contest the five charges in the state's complaint, which could result in suspension of the company's license. The U.S. Department...
...desert sheik, Daddah spent his youth following his father's camel flock. But after his father sent him away to a French-run school in St.Louis de Sénégal, Daddah rose swiftly, serving first as a French army interpreter, later studying at the Sorbonne, where he met and married a pretty French fellow law student. When General Charles de Gaulle came to power, Daddah was Mauritania's only lawyer, and therefore the obvious man to lead his country to self-rule under the semiautonomous government allowed by the French...
...intention of quitting Guantánamo, and the base can undoubtedly defend itself. The Navy does not expect that. What it does wait for is an attempt to make the base untenable by cutting off the only water supply for 6,800 Navymen and dependents, 2,200,000 gal. piped in daily from a Yateras River pumping station five miles outside base limits. Several times in late 1958. Castro's rebels turned off the water just to make the Americans jump. It can be done again; within a few days, the U.S. Navy would be shipping in water tankers...