Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then Harry Truman went back to Blair House, where he stayed awake until 11 o'clock listening to the late returns which nailed down the Demo cratic victories. Next day he confided to guests at a 64th birthday party for Secretary Charlie Ross (the prize gift: an imperial gallon of Scotch from White House reporters) that the election had been a wonderful satisfaction and that he had received even more messages of congratulation than he had after his own triumph a year...
...have something special with her water from Hereford, where tooth decay is almost unknown, supposedly because of fluorine in the water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). She sewed up commercial rights with the town of Hereford ("For all the water we'll ever need"), and leased a 10,000-gallon railway tank car to haul the water to Hollywood at $1,100 a trip...
...mine closed down in June, the teak sawmills in July. Gem prospecting has almost stopped, and Burma is now reduced to importing instead of exporting oil. Rebel forays on transportation lines have forced the Burmese to fly oil to the interior, where the price has risen to $6.30 a gallon. Rice exports have tobogganed, too. Burma exported about 3,000,000 tons of rice before the war. This year's exports will be less than 1,000,000. Next year the government hopes to have 730,000 tons for export, but many believe the figure will be lower. This...
...think that was something, you should have seen them senior picnics," he said. "Why they used to drink a gallon of beer apiece and all sobered up by jumping in the bay and trying to catch a greased...
Texas-born Henry Frnka had a hankering for Texas material, especially big, hard-playing fellows. In his fourth year at Tulane he had succeeded in coming by 20 of them, complete with boots and ten-gallon hats. He also beat Louisiana's bayous for likely looking lads and signed on 20 more including a hulking 280-lb. Cajun tackle named Jerome Helluin. Frnka housed his athletes in the new $250,000 athletic hall across from the Sugar Bowl, fed them rare steaks and fined them when they broke his training rules. On the strength of size, reserve strength...