Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PRICES of gasoline are probably headed downward. Huge stocks, now 22% higher than last year, are beginning to force price cuts at wholesale. Some brokers are trimming prices a half-cent a gallon, and refiners, who have maintained their prices so far, may have to follow suit after Labor...
...Prices. Direct taxes make up only 28% of French tax revenue (the U.S. proportion: 64%). The rest comes from indirect sources, such as 50? a gallon on gasoline. These taxes help to price French goods out of foreign markets and beyond the reach of many French workers. To some extent, the workers are compensated by the cradle-to-grave social security system, which pays hospital bills, unemployment benefits and family allowances. A man with four children often collects as much from social security as he does in wages. But social security is added on to the price of goods...
...acres of rolling Ohio farmland, bulldozers last week completed the grading job for a village of 10,000 inhabitants. Contracts were signed for some nine miles of streets, curbs and sewers, and construction crews.were building a pumping station and a million-gallon water tank. Lincoln Village, a $30 million town planned from sidewalks to railroad sidings, was being born...
...came off the assembly line. Short (12 ft. 4 in.) and low (3 ft. 10 in. to the top of the windshield), it has a four-cylinder, 90-h.p. engine with two carburetors and 8.5 to 1 compression ratio. The TR-2 gets 24 miles to the gallon, has independent front-wheel suspension for easier riding and two bucket seats. A particular attraction for sports-car buyers: the jetlike scream produced at high speed by the air scoop in front. The TR-2 will go on sale in the U.S. early in September at about $1,500 plus taxes...
...subsidiary: "Costs of labor, materials and services have risen substantially, and an adjustment has been long overdue." The adjustment will mean higher home-heating costs next winter. Gasoline prices have already been raised in many states, and last week Standard of Ohio announced a boost of 1½? per gallon, the biggest...