Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concerted attack on disease was predicted by Dr. William Charles White of the U. S. Public Health Service at Washington. For six years scientists have been studying a pure culture of a single strain of tubercle bacillus, chemically, bacteriologically, physically. Thirteen trillions of the little bugs, over three gallon jars full, have been accurately analyzed; ten different substances have been isolated from them...
...explosion's cause: Gasoline and fumes leaking into a compartment of the ships "skin", next to a 250,000-gallon airplane fuel tank (which contained 60,000 gallons at the moment but did not explode...
...Hampshire believed itself able to rehabilitate itself by taxation alone. In a special session last week, the New Hampshire House voted a special issue of 4% bonds to be issued up to $3,000,000, as needed; voted also to increase the state gasoline tax from 3c per gallon...
...London's annual automobile show, orders amounting to between ?60,000,000 & ?70,000,000 ($291,975,000 & $340,937,500) were last week placed, some dealers contracting for their entire 1928 output. Tiny four-cylinder cars with 7 ½-foot wheelbase, capable of 40 miles to a gallon of gasoline, proved most popular. Price...
Illinois has been able to build some of the finest concrete highways in the nation without the aid of a gasoline tax. But now, what will she be able to do with the added wealth of the two-cents-a-gallon gasoline tax which went into effect on Aug. 1 ? Will she have electric-lighted boulevards through the prairies? Will she have marble bridges? Unfortunately, she lost a little of her potential revenue when some 85% of her automobile owners drove to gasoline stations on the day before the tax began, and shouted: "Fill 'er up!" In Illinois...