Word: gal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planes have unloaded about 700,000 gal. of phosphate flame retardant on the fire, at a cost of nearly $4 million. To plot where and when the flames will strike next, experts use airborne sensors that detect where the fire is burning fastest and computers that analyze information about terrain and weather forecasts. With no rain in sight, the battle is expected to continue for many more days...
Because costs are lower, these stations can chip 4? to 5? off the price of a gallon of gas (current nationwide average: 63? per gal.), attract more customers and sell more fuel. Almost half of all the stations in the nation are now self-service, v. only 8% three years...
Because gas consumption continues to climb and the number of stations has fallen sharply, the amount of gas pumped by the average station has more than doubled since the early 1970s, to about 33,000 gal. per month. The self-service stations typically pump much more -200,000 gal. per month...
...they feared that the plan would amount to a subsidy for imported autos, which have captured 18.7% of the U.S. market. But the House kept heavy taxes on buyers of big gas-guzzlers. Carter's recommendation for graduated increases in gasoline taxes, which could have totaled 50? per gal. within ten years, was dropped, and the House also defeated a substitute proposal to raise the 4? per gal. federal gas tax by 5?. That setback was no great loss; there is a suspicion in Washington that the 500 proposal was planned in the first place as a throwaway...
...anyway. She traveled to China several years ago with a granddaughter and playfully invited Chou En-lai to write for the Times; he declined. The matriarch rarely interferes in Arthur's affairs. "Sons either have an Oedipus complex about their mothers or hate the ole gal for giving them too much chicken soup," says she. "But then I believe in telling my children what I think." She did protest a story about sex at Barnard College, her alma mater. "It was an unfortunate piece of publicity," she sighs. "I guess people get lots of sex nowadays, but they lose...