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Word: gallons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lacoss, manager of the Massachusetts and Harvard Ave. station, said "This law is fine for us and the wholesale dealers, but I feel sorry for the public." Lacoss has raised his prices from 25.9 cents per gallon to 27.8 for regular gasoline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Car Owners Pay 2 Cent Increase; Square Gasoline Dealers Favor Price Rise | 12/16/1955 | See Source »

That extra gallon of anti-freeze may be necessary before this winter is over, a report from the University's Blue Hill Observatory in Milton indicated yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: November Weather Indicates Cold Winter, Blue Hill Meteorologist Brooks Forecasts | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...pinup ,girl. Both male and female dugongs have sharp, coarse whiskers and give off what is delicately described as "a strong, distinct, aromatic dugong odor." Clams & Cucumbers. The dugong shows signs of becoming extinct. Hundreds were slaughtered in the 18705 after an Australian firm offered $9 a gallon for dugong oil; many more were killed and eaten in World War II, when-Japanese garrisons in the South Pacific convinced themselves that dugong meat tastes like prime ribs of beef. California's Eugenie was speared and taken off Babelthuap Island. Only three dugongs have been caught in the Palau group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Original Mermaid | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...auto news in years. Nicknamed the "Goddess," it has a long, duckbilled front reminiscent of the 1953 Studebaker, a plastic roof and half a dozen mechanical improvements, e.g., hydropneumatic suspension to keep the car on a constant level. The four-cylinder, 75-h.p. engine does 25 miles to the gallon and can get the Goddess up to 87 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Goddess | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...hair. He phoned the Doud home to say hello to Mamie's mother. With his painting easel, he sat out in the bright-lit sundeck foyer in a straightback chair, copying a recent LIFE photograph of his grandson, David, which showed the boy in a black ten-gallon hat with a fishing rod over his shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Homeward Bound | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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