Word: gallon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Round ran in the Fairbanks, Alaska, News-Miner, Pearson's most constant detractor was C.W. (for Charles Willis) Snedden-who happens to be the News-Miner's Publisher. It seemed to Snedden that the columnist never got anything right about Alaska, not even the cost of a gallon of gas in Fairbanks, which Pearson quoted at $1 (actual price at the time: 51? to 54?). Finally Snedden could stand no more. "The garbage man of the fourth estate " his paper sneered in an editorial as it dropped the column...
...already punishing gasoline tax was increased by sixpence (70), thus raising the cost of one "Imperial gallon" (a fifth again as capacious as its U.S. equivalent...
...kitchen, draft beer has been a luxury involving cumbersome kegs, bothersome deposits, troublesome returns. Now Atlantic Brewing Co. and National Can Corp. have introduced a gallon can of draft beer and a dispenser called a Tap-a-Keg Home Tap for sale at retailers in the South and Midwest. The can, which is 6 by 9 inches, is disposable; the Tap-a-Keg, a spigot and squeeze-bulb device, is reusable. The beer is genuine draft, must be shipped and stored under refrigeration. Price for a gallon of suds: about...
...days and weeks ahead." Sundown & a Cedar Fire. Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey, just ar rived at the ranch from Minneapolis, clumped gamely along at Johnson's side, wearing a pair of size 1 1 cowboy boots on his size 8 feet and a five-gallon hat on what appeared to be a six-gallon head. Just as manfully, he smacked his lips with great gusto after partaking of barbecued spareribs. The President called for a couple of horses, mounted one, and suggested that Hubert climb aboard the other...
Still speaking of Lyndon, Goldwater concluded: "Of course, when he gets back here to Texas and has those high-heeled boots on, and that ten-gallon hat, and he calls you 'Pardner,' he sounds like a conservative banker. But I can tell you in Washington when he wears just plain old shoes and says, 'How do you do,' he speaks an entirely different language, that of the radical liberals. And whether he likes it or not, or even knows it, he is backing socialism...