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...Shake It, Gal." At the Cobb County Fair in Marietta, Ga., the purple cotton candy and the foot-long hot dogs were going great. Duck-tailed farm boys and their girls rode the Ferris wheel for a high-arcing view of the cornfields of home. The talker (spieler) turned them in for 72-year-old Jim Jagger, fire eater ("I will amaze you by rubbing the burning torch over various parts of my body and anatomy"), a tattoo artist and human pincushion. The sword swallower put away a 10-in. blade ("I'll ram it down my bread basket...
...heaved a mighty sigh of relief. After a long, bitter industry fight, the whisky business finally had a new set of excise tax rules. Under the Forand bill, which was last week signed into law by President Eisenhower, distillers no longer must pay the excise tax of $10.50 per gal. on liquor held in Government bond upon withdrawal or automatically after eight years of storage. They now may hold it up to 20 years without paying...
...keep the current running. While the U.S. is not yet formally prepared to furnish nuclear explosives, the Atomic Energy Commission has already tested them in an underground blast, might well lend help and supplies if asked. ¶ Desalting water. The U.S. Department of the Interior, eying a 597 billion-gal, daily consumption in the U.S. by 1980 (v. 221 billion in 1955), has gone far in developing cheap desalting methods. Some of its pilot plants are producing desalted water for $1.75 per 1,000 gal. may soon hit $1, using methods that seem useful for the Middle East, where...
Boling planned the flight for nine months, spent part of his time checking charts and part learning to stay awake 48 hours at a stretch. His 250-h.p. plane was fitted with auxiliary wingtip tanks to provide an extra 124 gal. of gas (he consumed all but eleven), and with a special horn. Horn's function: to blow every hour, prevent his falling asleep too long. Boling left a parachute behind to save 25 Ibs.. stocked up on canned pears, apricot nectar and Fig Newtons. Special baggage: the white Bible his wife Joyce, a Seventh-day Adventist, carried...
While producers in some other industries were shaving prices (see below), oilmen last week felt confident enough to raise bulk gasoline prices on the Gulf Coast by ½? per gal. More increases are coming. Said a Sinclair Oil spokesman: "As the year goes on, higher refined prices will be inevitable because prices now are totally unrealistic in relation to costs...