Word: gal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folks have moved altogether from the King's Road homestead, according to London directory assistance. CBS has no specific time slot yet for the movie, but I'm sure it's going to be a smash. What a gal...
Fuel. As part of a routine agreement, the U.S. sent 1.5 million gal. of aviation fuel to the joint U.S.-British airbase at Ascension Island. It also made KC-135 aerial tankers available to Britain, but these were never sent to the South Atlantic. Instead, the Royal Air Force used its own KC-135s for midair refueling of Vulcan bombers making the 3,800-mile trip from Ascension to the Falklands, while U.S. planes in Europe were reassigned to British NATO duties...
From a low of fractionally less than $1 per gal. for unleaded regular on some markets, gasoline prices have started to firm up. According to Daniel Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Letter, a gasoline marketing weekly, the average nationwide price of fuel at the pump has nudged up by close to 1? since mid-April, to about $1.18 per gal. The rise was the first since March 1981, when gasoline prices peaked at an average of nearly $1.38 per gal. Lundberg expects that the cost of gasoline will jump 3? to 4? more by the end of the month...
Descending to depths of 8,500 ft., the Alvin has found not only more creatures of the Galápagos variety, such as giant worms, but other oddities: several species of snails, worms, clams and a jellyfish. Some are so novel that they defy the taxonomic abilities of the biologists aboard the expedition's mother ship, Melville, operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Among these unknown wonders: white eellike fish that hover around the scorching vents. For lack of a better name, the scientists have labeled them "21-degree-north vent fish" (after the latitude of the site...
...average owner, who is 39 and male, the appeal of the ultralights is not entirely poetic. A typical flyabout, weighing around 180 Ibs. and powered by a 25-h.p. snowmobile or chainsaw engine, will cruise for two hours on a 3½-gal. supply of regular gas. The Eagle ultralight gets 30 m.p.g. Some estimates put an ultralight's cost of operation at $2 an hour, vs. $10 for a conventional private plane. Under normal conditions, it is easy to fly, no pilot's license is required, and the aircraft does not have to be certified or inspected...