Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic petrol ration" last fall had seemed the last heartbreaking straw in the load of enforced joylessness. Except for business and in hardship cases, they would not get one drop of gas for their cars. Even "basic" had been skimpy. The driver of a 30-miles-to-the-gallon Austin could go only 270 miles a month. With the end of "basic" he had nothing for a drive to the station, an occasional shopping trip, or a weekend spin in the country with the family...
...stubby, pot-bellied George Truman*, 39, a veteran flying instructor. Last summer they wangled two used Super Cruiser airframes from Piper Aircraft, engines from Lycoming, Gyrosyn compasses from Sperry and radio, equipment from Bendix. They ripped out the passenger seat behind the pilot's seat and installed 100-gallon tanks, packed in a few charts, radio spares, a can of dope (i.e., glue) for repairing the wing fabric, one good suit and a white shirt apiece. Early in August, they kissed their wives goodbye, promised to be back in a month or so, and took off from Teterboro...
...good or better than it got. Import rates now imposed by the U.S. were nailed to present levels on 20% of the nation's dutiable imports; they were cut from 25% to 50% on the rest. Some reduced duties: ¶ Whiskey, from $2.50 to $1.50 per proof gallon...
...this "liquid dispenser," which--with malice toward none--is called "The Wellesley," the cubes are placed in a metal cylinder. The cylinder fits into a healthy one-and-a-half gallon container. And around the container fits an insulated...
Buckling Oil Line. The rise of 20? a barrel in crude oil prices caused Standard Oil Co. of Indiana to boost its wholesale price on supply-pinched oil products by as much as 1½ a gallon. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey still held the price line. But it adopted an allocation plan for its dealers...