Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems, as whether it is better in the North to sleep raw in a sleeping bag or to wear pajamas, were not settled at all: the men disagreed. The men of Musk-Ox did agree that: 1) biggest problem is maintenance of fuel supplies for snowmobiles, which carry 40 gallons, eat it up at a two-miles-a-gallon clip; 2) Canada's Eskimos* "are the friendliest, most honest people I ever met, but, man, they're dirty...
Within 18 months, Carthage expects to make over 246,000 gallons of gasoline a day. Carthage will be gambling a lot on a slim profit margin. It will cost slightly more than 4? a gallon to produce gasoline, which now sells wholesale for 6¼?. The company will be able to keep its cost of making gasoline down by selling the by-products of its process-1,164 barrels of Diesel oil and 70,000 pounds of alcohol a day. But if the price of gasoline should fall far enough, the profit may well disappear. RFC and the oil companies...
Slightly bigger than the Crosley, Standards have a 90-inch wheelbase, a four-cylinder, eight-horsepower engine (U.S. rating: 28 horsepower), will cruise at 50 m.p.h., get 35 to 40 miles on a gallon of gas. The Standards come in three models, "tourer," "saloon" (sedan) and "drophead coupe" (convertible coupe). Another shipment of 8 or 9 cars arrived in the U.S. last week...
Last Saturday was sunny and warm in southern Oklahoma. On the Lazy D Ranch, near Ada, some 400 cattlemen from the U.S. and Canada gathered around a small straw-covered arena. Most of them wore ten-gallon hats, cowboy boots and levis. So the most important figure of the day looked out of place in a cap and a "bulky, sheepskin-lined winter coat. He was chubby George Rodanz, 37, a Toronto, Ont. trucklines operator and cattle breeder. He had come to Oklahoma's annual three-day auction, in the heart of "Hereford heaven," to buy a prize bull...
...Received from a delegation of Arizonans (who want a veterans' hospital located near Phoenix) a so-called ten-gallon cow-puncher's hat, its color matching the Ford...