Word: gal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago several major suppliers increased the price they charge dealers by six-tenths of 1? per gal., or about 2.5%. Except on the West Coast, which has long been a price-war battle ground, the increase has become general over most of the nation - meaning that motorists will be paying 1? per gal. more for their...
Tougher Taxes. The gasoline producers have been anxious to beef up their profit margins ever since 1965, when a long and costly series of price wars finally faded away. Though retail prices, excluding taxes, indeed rose nearly 4% during 1966 to about 22.1? per gal. -matching the high 1957 level - the suppliers have a number of problems. Demand continues strong and refineries are being forced to pay more for crude oil. Labor settlements early this year have increased industry wages by 4%; dealers, also squeezed by higher wages, have long been screaming for fatter prices at the pump...
...recession and, in many cases, going on shorter work weeks, new-car registrations plunged 14% last November, and VW's sales at home fell to a record low of 16% of its production. The measures imposed by the hard-pressed government pushed gasoline prices up by 40 per gal., and German car-insurance companies this month raised their rates by as much...
...there is currently a spirited debate comparing the virtues of Bogner Superstretch, which is warmer, and Spinnerin, which is lighter. In the end, the esthetics are the same. Advises Grosse Pointe Ski-Shop Manager Bob Sharpe: "A good fit is when you can tell if a coin in the gal's back pocket is heads or tails...
...warm and soft as a purr. She does not radiate sensuality, nor is she the pulp of publicity campaigns. She is everybody's tomboy tennis partner and their daughter, their sister, their mum. To grown men, she is a lady; to housewives, the gal next door; to little children, the most huggable aunt of all. She is Christmas carols in the snow, a companion by the fire, a laughing clown at charades, a girl to read poetry to on a cold winter's night...