Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What aroused Deetz was the fact that the law almost put him out of business. At his small dairy farm, he sold Grade A quality milk at 16 cents under prevailing prices to customers who called with their own gallon jugs. Last year the Milk Marketing Administration told him to stop and hauled him into court because he was selling milk below minimum retail prices. Says Deetz: "I just had to fight...
American drivers should remember that "kept left" is the Rule of the Road in Great Britain, Ireland, and Sweden. Gasoline is more expensive, varying from a minimum of 43 cents per gallon in Denmark to 60 cents in Great Britain, and as high as 84 cents in Italy...
...starting point at Edinburgh, Tusek had to stop every 30 miles to fill his tank at service stations where hoses have not replaced the watering can. By the time he got to Edinburgh he was known as "the man who starts his car with a match and uses a gallon of water a mile...
Since the government opened the door to foreign exploration capital this summer, U.S. oilmen have been filling Havana with ten-gallon hats and billion-barrel talk. Last week a band of ten Latin American and U.S. businessmen flew into Havana to promote the development of the country's oil resources. Among the officers of the newly chartered Cuban-Colombian Petroleum Co.: Board Chairman Joseph W. Frazer. once of Kaiser-Frazer Corp., who now heads a uranium company; Director John A. Roosevelt, youngest of F.D.R'.s four sons, whose business ventures have ranged from department stores to home permanent...
Short Snorter. In Manitowoc, Wis., Ray Du Val, flustered at arriving late to defend his beer-drinking title, downed a gallon instead of the required half-gallon, still beat his nearest rival by ten seconds, explained his tardiness: "I was at the bar down the street having a beer...