Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case of a forced retreat of Red Army units, all rolling stock must be evacuated; to the enemy must not be left a single engine, a single railway car, not a single pound of grain nor a gallon of fuel...
Under existing law, the Army has taken over a locomotive crane, blueprints of a device for converting 1903 rifles into semiautomatics, a number of lathes, a 25-gallon copper still. But nobody was more upset than single-minded Judge Patterson at the outcry that under the "draft property" act the Administration could "take a man's watch or stifle the freedom of the press." Said he in surprise: "No such things were ever contemplated." But when he canvassed for support outside Congress, he ran into the same fear...
...liquor, another $1 a gallon...
...late John ("Wichita Bill") Noble was a Latin Quarter Bohemian, a noted painter of cowboys, sunrises and seascapes. He wore a five-gallon hat, called himself the "first white child born in Wichita." And he was hell on his own paintings. He often advised prospective customers not to buy them, often slashed them up, sometimes even bought back pictures he had sold, just to destroy them...
...prevails between U.S. and British scientists working on military devices. Harvard's Conant, a chemist by trade and a member of NDRC, recently spent a month in Britain sharing his secrets, filling his head with new ones. Britain's scientific ambassador to the U.S. is Charles Gallon Darwin, grandson of the great evolutionist and head of Britain's National Physical Laboratory...