Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gallon Hats. During a three-mile drive through the huge South Side U.S. Steel works, Molotov corrected a detective who told him the plant's annual production was 4,500,000 tons of steel. "No," snapped the well-briefed Foreign Minister...
...Omaha an angry crowd of Baltic refugees from Soviet tyranny picketed Molotov's train, and the Russian delegation stayed discreetly aboard. But in Cheyenne, Wyo. the Soviet diplomat hit the high spot of his tour when a reporter from the Denver Post presented him with a ten-gallon hat. The reporter had three Stetsons of different sizes, just to be sure the fit was right. Molotov first tried on a size 7⅛, which was too snug. The newsman offered him a 7½. That was just right. "Thank you. Thank you very much for the hat," beamed Molotov...
...indicated oil. The experts had scoffed in a body. At the time, America's 58 million annual barrels of oil came from the east, mainly Pennsylvania. John Archbold, one of the lords of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, had snorted that he would drink every gallon of oil produced west of the Mississippi. Calvin Payne, Standard's production genius, conversant with fields from Baku to Borneo, had come to Spindletop and warned: "You will never find oil here." The U.S. Geological Survey agreed with Standard's Calvin Payne...
...levy a general sales and use tax (2%); Washington pushed its state sales tax up to the highest in the U.S. (3.3%) ; Idaho decided to begin deducting state income tax from paychecks. Gasoline taxes, levied by all 48 states, are going up from an average of 5.6? a gallon to 5.9?. The total state tax take for fiscal 1956, assuming a continued strong economy, will soar well over $12 billion. That will represent an increase of more than 275% since...
DeMille likes to do things with an even more lavish hand. The Ten Commandments, with Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, some 20,000 extras and a 300,000-gallon tank filled with water to play the Red Sea, is budgeted at $8,000,000. But the film version of the story of Moses from the time he is taken from the bulrushes until, a bearded old man, he climbs Mount Nebo, is expected, almost literally, to run forever in movie houses throughout the world. The picture will take at least 3½ hours to play...