Word: gal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Helpless Horror. Superbly trained fire crews dragged hoses toward the burning locker. Other crewmen fought desperately to roll four planes to the far end of the hangar deck: three of them were already laden with bombs; the fourth, a tanker, carried 900 gal. of JB5 jet fuel. The fire fighters watched in helpless horror as the steel bulkheads of the flare locker started ballooning under the 7,000° heat inside. The steel hatch blasted open with a great gout of flame that engulfed the hangar and sent fire balls rocketing down every passageway, igniting two helicopters. Five sailors were...
Still, a Pavilion chef would shudder at the Johnsonesque proportions Franey uses. His beef-burgundy recipe calls for 2½ tons of cubed beef, 60 gal. of burgundy wine, 600 lbs. of mushrooms, 700 lbs. of onions and 465 gal. of sauce. It serves...
...avid reader and a longtime subscriber of TIME, but I stand on my right to defend any statements in error, and being a former newspaper gal myself, I still go for research...
...Gal latin's, Monterey, Calif. Grand dishes, such as bull's head complete with apple in the mouth and eyes intact, and roast imperial Russian wild boar. Boar served only on several days' notice, at $14.75. Also $20-a-plate servings of Chateaubriand, served only to parties of ten or more...
...wonder. Johnnie Walker, the world's top-selling Scotch, sends more than a million cases a year to the U.S. This month, making his annual report for the twelve-month period ending March 31, Sir Robert said that overall exports of Scotch rose by 9,120,000 million gal., or 16%, to a total of 65,440,000 gal. Distillers Co. Ltd. also made marked gains with its gins and vodkas, especially in the U.S., where it already operates a distillery and bottling plant in Linden, N.J., plans to open a new one next month in Plainfield...