Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When war came Vortox soon got orders from builders of both light and medium tanks. Made in several designs, the commonest form of filter looks like a glorified five-gallon oilcan painted Army green. Inside is a complicated mechanism whereby incoming air is subjected to centrifugal action and to a violent cleansing oil spray before being passed along to the carburetor...
Four thousand gasoline and sugar wholesalers and sugar retailers in the guinea-pig area opened ration-coupon accounts with their banks, began depositing, for pound and gallon credit, the coupons they had received from customers. Tellers counted them as carefully as dollars and cents, made up special ration-banking statements for the depositors and OPA. Bank guards deposited the coupons in the bank's vaults, from which they will be removed and burned by officials at two-week intervals to prevent a huge paper accumulation. To replenish their stocks of merchandise, depositors began to write the first of many...
...gone from 40? per pack of 20 to $200. Throughout China today it is a commonplace to find chicken selling at $20 a lb., coffee at $150 a lb., coal at $900 a ton, bread at $5 a loaf, electric light bulbs at $140 apiece, gasoline at $70 a gallon...
...York World-Telegram began reprinting news stories of the 19205. One from Aurora, 111.: "State dry agents today stormed the home of Joseph De King, 40, after bombarding it with gas bombs, killed Mrs. De King, 35, and clubbed her husband into unconsciousness. . . . The raiders pointed to a half-gallon of wine found on the premises as justification." Another told of holiday whoopee-makers going blind, dying after drinking wood alcohol...
...women's full-fashioned nylon stockings from around $2.95 to $1.65. A Manhattan department store was advertising rye whiskey at $2.29 per quart, and Scotch at $3.29 per fifth. Gasoline, which the citizen ought to conserve, is still offered to him at between 17? and 23? per gallon-and the Government is paying a transportation subsidy to the oil companies to keep the price down in the East...