Word: gallon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valley chugged Walter Scott ("Death Valley Scotty") in an old, rebuilt Franklin. Snorted he: "These city trails ain't no place for this locomotive. It's a specially made model for traversing the desert mountains into the Valley. . . . It goes 700 miles without stopping. Got a 100-gallon gas tank and carry ten gallons...
...Vestris. Last month, day after Will Rogers and Wiley Post crashed in Alaska, Songwriter Freddie Rose (Red Hot Mamma) whipped out pieces on that disaster, passed them on to Ray Whitley, a onetime rancher who has a nasal voice, plays his own guitar accompaniments, affects a ten-gallon hat and spurs. Whitley sang the tragic songs for Decca Records. Inc., which last week reported a sale of over 5,000 copies. On one side of the disk was The Last Flight of Wiley Post. Excerpts...
...shipment and are in fast-growing use as a low-cost fuel for stationary engines, switching locomotives, tractors, trucks and buses. These two, mixed with oxygen, are cheaper than acetylene as a fuel for welding torches. Since they vaporize easily, they are good refrigerants. Some consumers use the same gallon of propane first as a chemical solvent, next as a refrigerant, finally burn it as a gas fuel...
...first American Austin scooted out of a factory at Butler, Pa. Copied from the immensely popular British Austin, it was 28 inches shorter than the smallest standard car, came up to a man's chin, cost $445 f. o. b. Butler. It ran 40 mi. on a gallon of gasoline, achieved a speed of 50 m. p. h. Two strong men could lift it into any 10-ft. parking space...
...joint impartial study of the project, proposed through me by the American Petroleum Institute, if accepted by the Chemical Foundation, will reveal the fallacy of the project on the basis of present conditions and costs and the hopelessness of future manufacture of alcohol at prices of 7? per gallon, such as are predicted by enthusiastic protagonists of the scheme. Note that Mr. Henry Ford made no commitment on this scheme, that the prominent representatives of the automobile industry who were officially announced as speakers actually neither spoke nor attended and that Mr. Irénée du Pont described...