Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Distribute Gasoline. From the ports and the beaches where these feats were performed, deliveries had to be made to a ravenous customer who demanded over a million gallons of gasoline a day-and who kept changing his address. By last week 700 miles of pipeline had been laid. From the end of the pipelines, tank trucks carry gas and oil 100 miles to distribution points, where fuel is transferred to five-gallon cans. Two-and-a-half-ton trucks take the cans to advance Army dumps...
...States. The rest is local material, ranging from the reading of war correspondence in the area to burlesques such as McGoo's Booze Hour ("Next time you visit your PX take home a handy family-size container of McGoo's Old Man in the convenient 60-gallon drum...
With three gallon cans of pineapple juice on hand, Phillips Brooks House held its annual Harvard-Radcliffe freshman tea Sunday afternoon. Several hundred men, both freshmen and upper-termers, were present but only a handful of Radcliffe girls risked the hot weather to come to the gathering...
Eight Piper Cubs flew across German lines on Mt. Ceracoli. Over the target their pilots solemnly pushed out a few five-gallon tins of gasoline, circled to see what would happen. As they had reckoned, nothing much did. An enemy-held tree burst into brief flame, a pillar of smoke soared all of three feet into the air. The armada wheeled, made for home at 70 miles an hour, while bored Germans took desultory pot shots at them...
...market had opened up weeks before when 17-year-old Bruce Wier, a high-school senior (whose parents are in Oregon), raided a ration board, swiped enough stamps for several thousand gallons. He peddled them at Skateland, got $3 to $5 for a strip of 24 three-gallon stamps. Some boys bought job lots and resold them. Babyfaced, nonchalant Wier was finally apprehended and removed to the Federal Correctional Institution in Arapahoe County. Said he proudly: "I blew probably more than $1,000 on wine, women and song, like they say in stories...