Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stroke in the war for readers and advertising that has raged in Denver ever since the Scripps-Howard interests started to compete in earnest with "Napoleon of the Jackrabbits," Gambler-Publisher Fred G. Bonfils of the Denver Post (TIME, Jan. 17). Last week the Scripps-Howard men offered a gallon of gasoline free to anyone inserting a "want ad" in their morning News editions. Publisher Bonfils, irked, ordered a counterstroke and his Post (the morning edition lately established to oppose the morning News), swaggered: "You can't stop us, by cracky! Here we come down the road again...
...different with the Italians. They made good in this country. It it wasn't for them we wouldn't have no subways. They went down in the 'bowels of the earth' and dug 'em out. Now they have gone to Italy and drink wine for 15 cents a gallon while we pay $5.00 a quart for rotten liquor...
...matriculated. When they saw his first "hoss," his instructors recognized that he possessed instinctively, and could execute, most of the knowledge they could impart in a lifetime. With no model other than mental images of his favorite pony, "Morgan," and a long-legged, lean-jawed man in a gallon hat and leather chaparajos he worked up models full of tense horse-and-man action in which every muscle, strap and stretch of skin strained perfectly or lay in lifelike ease. So thoroughly did he know what he was about that of all the structural wires in eight groups of rearing...
...vigorous warrior: "Ask any veteran of the A. E. F. whether war could be humane, with or without gas. . . ." Several days later, after a conference with Senator Borah, the President announced that he would support the Geneva protocol. ¶Germany can manufacture methanol (synthetic wood alcohol) for 48? per gallon; in the U. S. the production costs range from 72? to 75?. So, last week President Coolidge raised the tariff on methanol from 12? to 18? per gallon, thereby using the full extent of his power under the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922, which authorizes him to change duties...
...Jack") Garner of Texas, ranking minority member of the committee, arrived wearing a new two-gallon sombrero. Later he called informally on Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and they debated the merits of the Democratic and Republican tax cutting schemes...