Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newsmen further learned that the Coolidge fishing costume was as follows: last year's Western (high-heeled) boots, khaki trousers, khaki shirt, slicker, last year's Western ("ten-gallon...
...when the wires flashed word from Wales that Pilot Wilmer Stultz had guided the Friendship safely to a landing in the Burry inlet on the north side of the Bristol channel. Observed "Lady Lindy," casually: "We are short of gasoline." She was right. The plane had used the last gallon of fuel...
...Ojai valley (pronounced O-hy) of California swarms every afternoon with outlandish & desperate-looking bandits wearing fuzzy chaps, huge spurs, violently colored silk shirts, ten and sometimes only five-gallon hats. These desperadoes swoop down on a drugstore-and ask for an ice cream soda. After they have mangled the straws and paid the soda-jerker, they climb on their horses and ride back to Thacher School, where they prepare for college...
From where the ship is moored, which happens to be alongside the Standard Oil Dock at Shanghai, we can see two Chinamen bring aboard two fifty-gallon drums of gasoline, weighing approximately three hundred and fifty pounds each, on a YA-HO pole.* Does any Pullman passenger's baggage weigh that much...
...feature of his new Budget. He destined for this fiscal nest egg the budgetary surplus for the year just past, amounting to ?4,250,000. Further to swell the fund, Mr. Churchill established last week, to take effect at once, an increased tax of four pence per gallon on automotive gasoline and oils-a tax which he declared will bring in ?14,404,000 ($70,000,000) this year "and more later." The immediate result was that last week the price of a gallon of gasoline jumped four pence and a farthing (8^c?) throughout Great Britain. Motorists cursed...