Word: gallon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corvair sedan is virtually unchanged in appearance. Major mechanical improvement: an air heater that takes its heat from the engine replaces the gasoline heater, which sometimes costs Corvair drivers as much as eight miles per gallon in winter...
...chartered Viscount skidded to a stop on the sodden runway of Otis Air Force Base, and Lyndon Johnson stepped out, looking like a king-sized Martian in a ten-gallon hat. "I've come to see my leader," he announced. A waiting Air Force staff car whisked him to Hyannisport, 15 miles away. That night, while Caroline Kennedy's tiny grey kitten swatted night bugs on the front stoop, Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson held their first grand-strategy meeting since they parted company in Los Angeles, the victorious nominees on a strong and strange Democratic ticket...
...French Assembly and proclaimed that the time had come to crack down on the home distillers. He had found it impossible to police more than 2,100,000 Frenchmen holding home-distilling permits; in some departments, there is a home still for every other adult male, with a gallon and a half of illegal booze produced for every gallon distilled under legal limitations. Furthermore, the ocean of homemade booze was killing too many Frenchmen, he argued. "In the past 14 years,'' said Debré, "total deaths from alcoholism have multiplied by twelve, deaths from cirrhosis of the liver...
Sometimes companies are surprised at their success, only to discover that Africans have found an unsuspected use for their product. Parker, which dominates the West African ink market, recently noted that its sales had rocketed and retailers were asking for gallon bottles. Parker finally discovered that its popularity was due to a thirst for education: pregnant mothers were drinking ink in the hope that their children would be born knowing how to write. Other companies have found shoe polish used as face cream, soap as fish bait, hair cream as sandwich spread...
...problems, though it is just a canard spread by Columnist Art Buchwald that a Frenchman wrote home that he had a hard time finding a martini with enough vermouth in it. Last year a member of the Japanese Diet toured the U.S. accompanied by an aide loaded down with gallon bottles of sake, a huge box of rice, Japanese pickles, soy sauce and seaweed. Twice nearly ejected from hotels for cooking odoriferous concoctions in his room, he was upbraided when he got back home for causing Japan bad publicity. His explanation: "How could I trust the native food...