Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...encourage oil production in the Eastern States-and thus get more oil where it is needed most-OPA lifted Pennsylvania grade crude-oil prices 25? a bbl. (about 10%). To offset higher transportation costs (by rail instead of tanker), OPA also approved a ½?-a-gallon boost in Atlantic coast retail gasoline prices (except in Florida and Georgia...
Tank-car freight runs 4? a gallon from Texas against 1? for tankers (including war-risk insurance and war bonuses for crews). Oilmen figure tank cars will add $120,000,000 to their annual transportation bill, some $90,000,000 more than the recent 10? a gallon price boost will bring in. So last month oilmen tried again for a West-East pipeline, got turned down as they did last fall, because the pipeline they wanted required 500,000 tons of scarce steel plate. But they refuse to quit, still want a fat 21-inch pipeline to move...
...Geechee went with Leroy. Three days later she was back. Then Author Rawlings found one of her five-gallon jugs of moonshine reduced to three gallons, the other to two. Said lovelorn 'Geechee: "It's the onliest way I can make out. It's the onliest thing lifts my heart up, times I think I'm jus' obliged to die." When Mrs. Rawlings fell from her horse and broke her neck, 'Geechee cared for her tenderly. But she taught Mrs. Rawlings' other two Negroes to drink. One morning Author Rawlings "awoke to pandemonium...
...climbed at the rate of nearly 300,000 barrels a day. In announcing the March allowable, Railroad Commissioner Jerry Sadler admitted it was more than could be shipped. Big Humble Oil (S.O.N.J. subsidiary) cut its West Texas takings by 40%. At mid-continent refineries, gasoline prices declined ¼?: a gallon because the oil could not get to where it was needed...
...piled with Japanese bodies, in some places three deep. But at least one was still alive. He suddenly popped out of a foxhole 40 yards away and fired two quick shots that passed harmlessly over us. The target was possibly a fighter from Texas who was wearing a 10-gallon hat and looked like an important person. An American soldier coolly drew the firing pins from two grenades and tossed them accurately into the Japanese foxhole and then walked over and fired several rounds of his tommygun to make sure...