Word: gallon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...multistage flash distillation. In this system, sea water is heated and sprayed into a low-pressure chamber where it flashes into steam. As it passes through a series of similar chambers, even more fresh water is steamed off until, in the more efficient operations, an average of 3½ gallons of sea water is turned into a gallon of fresh. So pure is the result that sometimes a jigger of such contaminants as magnesium salts is tossed back in to eliminate the bland, distilled taste...
Quietly, with none of the ten-gallon flamboyance that has marked many lesser occasions in his life, Lyndon Johnson turned 57 last week...
...trade gap for July fell to a trivial $2,800,000. There was some economic news to grin about too, including efforts by a big oil company to grab more of the country's gasoline market by hiring bikini-clad station attendants to give away one gallon free...
...lingered too long under the impression that desalting sea water is a far-out and a far-distant goal," announced his determination "to make the great breakthrough before 1970." The Administration's target is to build plants, within five years, with a daily capacity of 100 million gallons each for the nation's biggest cities, as well as 10 million-gallon plants for smaller communities by 1968. "Edge of Disaster." The President also announced a $4,000,000 water-resources study to cover the area from Maine to Virginia, which has been increasingly short of water...
...world's bestpreserved Model A's. Except for a few of what most competitors scornfully call "stretcher cases" (cars brought by trailer), all of the A's were driven from their home towns, and one had made it from San Diego averaging 16 miles per gallon and hitting 55 miles an hour without any trouble. From the Wastebasket. In this day of rampant obsolescence and inexorable progress, many of the things that people love most dearly are those that they have rescued-either through stubbornness or nostalgia-from history's wastebasket. The Model...