Word: gallon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...function last week. Editor Byron Elkins cogitated. He stepped into the street, backed "a small automobile" into his shop, jacked up the wheels, attached a belt, ran off his editions "at the rate of 30 miles an hour." He alleged that he got "1,500 papers to a gallon of gasoline...
...traveler must then confine his remarks to those queer flowers, that old house, or those funny people. On Sunday afternoons, when the clouds of gasoline smoke hide all these possible objects of observation, comments and curses must be reserved for the dust and the numbers of miles to the gallon. The art of conversation, which has been lagging since the days of Emerson and Holmes, seems about to suffer an extensive mutilation...
...builders recognize the need of sociability; and at a recent meet at Lympne, two-seater "chummy-fly-abouts" made their appearance for the first time. With a 30 horsepower engine, the curiously named Wee-Bee 1 made a speed of 70 m.p.h., with a mileage of 36 to the gallon, carrying a pilot and passenger of ordinary weight...
...horsepower tax of almost $5 per horsepower-or $100 annually, even on a Ford. The tax yields the hard-pressed British Treasury about $65 million each year, and amounts to enough on each car to restrict con- siderably their widespread ownership. Moreover, gasoline retails at about 45 cents a gallon, which makes running expenses high. U. S. cars are built without especial consideration for their consumption of gasoline, where British cars are especially constructed to be economical of fuel. Yet U. S. cars have several positive advantages. They are better on hills, they are cheaper and easier to repair...
...gasoline is $2 a gallon in Berlin, fat chauffeurs are taboo, owing to the fact that their weight increases running charges. The wealthy now advertise for "short, slim chauffeurs, about the size and weight of jockeys...