Word: gal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million. They cost only $2.5 million to produce. Explosives to go with the timers were illegally supplied by J.S. Brower & Associates of Pomona, Calif, another CIA contractor. Some 40,000 Ibs. of the high explosive RDX-the largest nonmilitary shipment on record-were flown to Libya in 55-gal. drums marked "industrial solvent." This was a risky enterprise since the drums could have exploded in flight in turbulent weather...
...cause has ceased-in this case the war. Fourth, the Government has rejected the claim of thousands of Viet Nam veterans that a wide range of symptoms, many of which developed since the G.I.s returned, can be blamed on exposure to a deadly defoliant called Agent Orange, 12 million gal. of which were used by U.S. forces in Viet...
...main course of meat, fish or chicken, a salad, dessert, rich espresso coffee and a good bottle of Chianti, can easily be found for less than $26 per person. A meal in a more modest restaurant can go for as little as $8. Gasoline is high-$3.25 per gal.-but that is offset by fares on Italian trains: $14 for a first-class one-way ticket between Rome and Naples...
Legislators in many states, including South Dakota, Virginia and Alabama, have recently admitted their problems and hiked gasoline taxes by as much as 4? per gal. Other states will surely follow. Says David Finley, of the Ohio department of transportation: "We haven't raised our gas taxes in more than two decades, but we will have to now. The condition of the roads has me very worried...
...American corporations in profits last year, has been dramatic. Refineries are now operating at a record low 66.3% of capacity. According to Daniel Lundberg, the Los Angeles-based consultant who tracks U.S. gasoline prices, the wholesale cost of gas has dropped by an average of nearly .8? per gal. in the past two weeks. As a sign of a softening market, Atlantic Richfield and Texaco are now offering selected dealers a 4?-per-gal. discount on wholesale prices...