Word: gallon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ickes-Moffett code set a 40-hr. week, 40? an hour minimum pay, empowered the President to fix for 90 days a maximum base price per gallon of gasoline, crude oil prices per bbl. to be 18.5 times as high as the gasoline price. By way of compromise the whole question of price was, however, left subject to change by a committee of 15 to be appointed by the President. The committee is to "recommend" to States the quota production they should permit and by forbidding greater shipments in interstate commerce will enforce its "recommendations." Furthermore, withdrawal of oil from...
...Europe is the best U. S. oil customer, rivalry in the East is much more intense, always more colorful. As everyone knows, one-half the world's people squat on that portion of the globe that lies between Karachi and Harbin. And all oilmen know that one more gallon of kerosene each year for each & every Hindu, Siamese, Chinese and Japanese would lift sales to figures fantastic. Thus there is always desultory scrimmaging between the big oil companies. It broke into open warfare in 1927 when Socony and Royal Dutch were fighting for the Indian gasoline market. Sir Henri...
Thundering like a mountain on the move, the wall of water surged through Parker, tumbled down Cherry Creek toward suburban Denver. Logs, tree-trunks, tons of debris were swept along as the billion-gallon deluge widened out to more than a mile. Cherry Creek was a battering-ram of water, boiling over its embankments. At 7 o'clock it burst into Denver, ripped out six bridges in swift succession. Just ahead of it were police cars and fire engines, sirens a-scream, racing the residents to safety. A stampede of 5,000, many clad in night clothes, fled from...
...James ("***") Hennessy have hoped that on the repeal of the 18th Amendment they can drop their distasteful dealings with U. S. bootleggers. Last week their trade paper, Le Capital, urged them not to break off profitable clandestine relations in a hurry, warned that "an American tax of $6.40 per gallon on alcohol is provided and must become effective automatically when Prohibition is abolished. Furthermore, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act provides an additional tax of $5 per gallon on imported liquors. "There still are some days left for the bootleggers and gangsters, who will continue to ignore licenses, taxes and import...
...Irked by the fact that gasoline in his State has jumped from 12? to 22½? a gallon in the past month, Governor Martin of Washington filed suit against 17 oil companies last week, challenging their right to do business in the State, charging them with conspiracy in forming a monopolistic pool and demanding the appointment of a receiver to take over their Washington properties. Included" in the charge were Standard Oil of California, Richfield, Shell, Texas Corp...