Word: gallon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many a gallon of blue blood coursed through the veins of a snooty party delicately sipping tea one afternoon last week on the trim lawns of the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes. Here and there a peer, dangling a strawberry, gazed into the middle distance for a patch of white canvas against the blue of The Solent. In full swing was the Squadron's regatta...
...Manhattan last week Revenue agents had a new experience. Nothing new to them was sending six Harlem Negroes to jail for bootlegging. New, however, was the evidence on which the 'leggers were convicted. Exhibited for the jury was a unique liquor sold wholesale at $7 for a five gallon tin, retail at a nickel a pony. According to the thoroughgoing New York Times, it was colored with orange peel and possessed "an aromatic bouquet with a heavier underlying odor like that of tobacco steeped in water." The Times went on to add that it "created in the drinker...
...estimated 600 survivors throughout France & Belgium. Many of the 25 were blind, many carried scars of the battlefield, all were in miserable shape. Long-starved, the horses had to be prevented from disastrous overeating, were kept down to a daily seven pounds of hay, a weekly gallon of beer. Most gratifying to the League officers was the rapid way in which the horses recalled their English. After only a few weeks with British grooms, the horses would be obeying orders they had not heard since...
...compared to the increases of 12 to 628 barrels per month, as quoted in your article, your readers might be interested in an 15,000-gallon Dowell treatment, resulting in an increase from 50 to 16,850 barrels of oil per day - in a 10,000-gallon treatment resulting in an increase from...
...cubic feet of gas per day; 20,000-gallon treatments, as compared to 3,000 in your article, are not unusual...