Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd put their dollars down on Bill Gallon, a brown colt owned by a comparative newcomer to harness racing, Cottonman R. Horace Johnston of Charlotte, N.C. Bill Gallon, named after one of Johnston's cronies, was purchased as a yearling for $1,800, was top money-winner ($14,000) among the two-year-olds last year. This summer, the Southern colt had failed to win a race on the Grand Circuit. Nevertheless, the wise men of Goshen, with no Racing Form to guide them, figured that Bill Gallon was the horse to beat...
...second heat was more comforting to the Gallon backers. Coming from behind like a fire horse, Johnston's colt nosed out His Excellency, pride of Brooklyn, in a photo finish. Sportswriter John Kieran said Bill Gallon had the longer nose. But Kieran must have been wrong. For in the third heat Bill Gallon breezed past his Yankee rivals, finished nearly three lengths in front of His Excellency, four ahead of Florimel...
...stations complied, figured it would solve labor shortage, cut expenses. Rural dealers, weary of 18-hour days at the pumps, were glad to hear of the edict, for the most part obeyed it. On New York's crowded parkways, State police gave emergency aid to stalled motorists: a gallon to light cars, two to heavier ones. Trucks and taxicabs were supplied, as provided in the plan...
Japanese-held East Asia, however, is virtually unblessed with petroleum. Almost every drum of gas and gallon of oil that Japan burns in her tanks, planes and other empire-building machinery must be imported. Biggest source of supply, outside of the U.S., is The Netherlands Indies, with whom Japan last year contracted for an annual supply of 1,800,000 tons...
Effective this week, Canadian service-station operators will sell gas and oil-for cash-only between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. weekdays. On Sundays they will lock up their pumps and go walking. (Company credit cards are out, except for American tourists.) Gas prices were upped 1? per Imperial gallon. Conservation controls were slapped on wells in Alberta's lush new Turner Valley field, which supplies about 15% of Canada's consumption...