Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...points in workaday metaphors. Last week he conjured up an ironmongery (British for hardware store) in which a night-prowling prankster switched round the price tags. Then, said His Grace, "When we enter in the morning, we find lawn mowers are two for 5?, nails $25 each, and a gallon of paint a penny. All the values are wrong. That is what has happened to our civilization, and we shall not come to order and peace until our price tags tally with...
...miles eastward to Greece. It was an area of destruction. Along its varied route lay shattered Axis planes, bomb-ripped airfields, flaming hangars; charred landing docks, twisted loading cranes and supply ships, fire-gutted and listing at anchor; splintered freight cars; black, billowing smoke that had been million-gallon oil dumps; and the smoking rubble of torpedo factories, iron foundries, steel works, chemical plants and supply depots...
...bursting point. In many war centers-Detroit, San Diego, Newport News, Cleveland, Buffalo, Louisville-new facilities have been installed, but dangers of a shortage are still acute. War production wallows in water. Nearly 80 tons of water are needed to manufacture a ton of ingot steel, 236 gallons are needed to make one gallon of alcohol; 125,000 gallons are needed to test each airplane engine. Present rationing plans are mild, would limit the digging of wells only by corporations and municipalities. The aim: prevent unnecessary digging, preserve the underground water supply, insure the U.S. against a prolonged drought...
...white precipitate of silver chloride which would indicate that there was salt in the boiler water." Chief Petty Officer Cook had turned a valve, and "steam as hot as red-hot iron" had emerged from the ship's boilers at 400º and heated a 40-gallon cauldron of soup. Chief Petty Officer O'Flaherty was delicately keeping a director sight upon the foremast of the enemy flagship: "With every microscopic variation of the ... sight ... six guns moved too . . . five hundred tons of steel and machinery swaying to each featherweight touch...
...such flexibility of fighter supply, engineers devised a big (165-gallon) plastic tank, attached one to each wing of the Lightning. Weighing 1,000 Ib. when full (90 empty), the tanks are jettisoned when used. Streamlined, they take only 4% off the P-38's top speed, a lower percentage at cruising speeds...