Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite a they-shall-not-pass stand by Rayburn. the House last week agreed to finance the highway program by adding 1? per gallon (Ike asked 1½?) to the federal motor-fuel excise...
...lighter than the 3,758-Ib. average of other Fords. This in turn gives a good weight-to-power ratio for the 90-h.p., six-cylinder engine. The car has a cruising speed of better than 60 m.p.h., and, says Ford, it is capable of 30 miles per gallon...
HIGHWAYS. Along with his housing message, Ike gave Congress notice that he did not like the highway-financing plan just voted by the House Ways & Means Committee, chaired by Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills (see below). The committee proposal to boost the federal gasoline tax by 1? a gallon to get the nearly stalled federal-state highway program fueled up again was a "step in the right direction," said Ike (he had urged a 1½ increase), but he objected to the proposal to channel about half the revenue from federal taxes on automobiles and parts into the highway trust fund...
...months to a year. Engines will be mounted crosswise to save space, and the cars will have front-wheel drive, no rear axle. Dubbed the Austin Seven and the Morris Mini-Minor, they will have 36-h.p., four-cylinder engines (top speed: 70 m.p.h.), run 45 miles on a gallon of gas. U.S. price: about...
...last week rode a bill to save the nation's $41 billion, 41,000-mile highway-building program from skidding to a halt. The committee, which ten times has vowed never to boost the federal gasoline tax, changed its mind; it approved a 1? hike to 4? a gallon, effective for 22 months from Sept. 1 to June 30, 1961. The lopsided vote (16 to 9) marked a partial victory for the Administration; it has championed a fiveyear, 1½? boost, bucked a congressional bond-floating plan that would have added huge interest charges, increased vastly the cost...