Word: gallon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same platform that has been the launching pad for hundreds of dry, Karl Deutschean pearls (sailing through both ears of thousands of sleeping Gov 1 students), was a mass of wriggling bodies. The whole stage looked like a Life photo of the corner of Haight and Ashbury. Gallon bottles of white wine and scores of joints passed through tangles of arms and legs and, by all means, heads...
...chamber is more than plaques, scrolls and citations. There are photographs of all Roy's friends with autographs: Ronald Reagan in his Ten Gallon Hat sends his regards; best wishes from Everett Dirksen, J. Edgar Hoover, Cardinal Spellman, and Cardinal Cooke, and finally a photograph of Nixon and Roy at a banquet, Dick whispering paternal advice to Roy. (Nixon is presently trying to remove Morgenthau as District Attorney, astonishingly enough...
...polluted areas to regular gasoline on the open road. With natural gas, the company claims, engine oil lasts up to a year, sparkplugs fire for 50,000 miles, and valve jobs are usually unnecessary. Better yet, 100 cu. ft. of natural gas gives about 15% more mileage than a gallon of gasoline and costs about 63% less...
...simple solution to the water-pollution problem would be the levying of fines by state governments against municipalities and industries that pollute bodies of water. These fines would be, say, 100 or more per gallon per day of waste discharge. This would mean industries paying out tens of thousands of dollars per day and rising tax rates in cities that persist in fouling rivers and lakes...
Looters and black-marketeers added to the misery. Gasoline and drinking water were sold for $1 a gallon and bread for 50? a loaf, until authorities began arresting profiteers. Limited martial law was declared along the Mississippi coast, and National Guardsmen were sent into parts of Mississippi and Alabama to prevent theft...