Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons: dehydrating cuts shipping space and weight an average of 90% (12½ gallons of vegetable soup, enough for 200 soldiers, can come out of a 2-½ gallon container of dry soup mix); treated paper and cardboard containers suitable for dehydrated goods save tin, can be easily destroyed in emergency so as not to fall into enemy hands; comparatively few workers are needed in dehydration plants; if dried foods had been used in the first year of Lend-Lease shipments, the equivalent of eighty 10,000-ton ships would have been spared for other duties...
...Rules. OPA increased prices 2½? per gallon for gas, unveiled new ration rules on permanent cards to be issued next week. Next probable move: to extend rationing westward to include 93 more counties in New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia...
...motorcycle-propelled beach chair complete with liveried chauffeur propels one dowager around Newport at a rate of 70 miles per gallon. Younger Newporters tear around on motor scooters and bicycles...
...available to deal with them. This week, therefore OPA will probably have to puncture its East Coast price ceiling on gasoline for the fourth time, since the oil industry cannot go on forever absorbing the higher cost of bringing oil east by train at 4? a gallon instead of by tanker at ½?. So far a deficit of $39,000,000 is the only thanks the industry has received for its unhesitating efforts to move oil east, without tankers, regardless of cost...
...marketing plain sea water at $20 a gallon, $1.25 a glass as a cure for "mineral deficiencies," one Michael Lee of Alameda, Calif. was fined $1,000. Thus ended a thriving business, with $30,000 a year in profits, 200 active sales agencies, and no production costs at all except packaging...