Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issued the new decontrols on materials and prices (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) than the law of supply & demand reasserted itself. In areas where shortages still existed, prices moved up. On the West Coast, crude oil went up 10? a barrel, and Socony-Vacuum predicted a nationwide boost of 1? a gallon in the price of gasoline. Scrap copper, supplies of which had dwindled to almost nothing in expectation of a free market, scooted up 4? a lb. to 25?. Since that was more than the ceiling price on refined copper (24½? a lb.), metalmen were sure that the refined metal...
There is no hot water and the food is ladled out of five-gallon cans. As I talked to broken men, silent women, sick children, the sameness of their clothing, their sadness and their words was crushingly monotonous. Many were farm people. Last season the Communists made them give up their seed crops and slaughter their pigs, cows and calves to meet agricultural quotas. The farmers knew that they could not possibly meet next year's higher quotas, so they fled...
...relatively rich oilman by Dallas standards, showed Hollywood a Texas-type New Year's Eve party. He took over the entire Mocambo, Sunset Strip's expensive playspot, complete with two orchestras, three bars, wine list and kitchen. Among the items which impressed the social reporters: imported 10-gallon hats for the guest list of 300, which included cinema's great and near great plus Parisienne Songstress Edith Piaf, Doris Duke, Queen Mother Nazli of Egypt, and Hotelman Conrad Hilton; 115 Cadillacs in the parking lot; five detectives hired to guard an estimated $2,000,000 worth...
...Texas and Illinois last week, art lovers set out to bring good paintings and lithographs within reach of the average family's pocketbook, but their ideas of a bargain were as different as a ten-gallon hat and a tapered fedora...
...city's Museum of Fine Arts, opened it to a list of 300 Dallasites who looked like potential customers. On view were 56 paintings by such contemporary artists as Hazel Janicki, John Marin, Ben Shahn. Within an hour of the opening, eight paintings were sold. Texas' ten-gallon prices: from $50 for Woman Setting Table by Jenne Magafan to $500 for Lyonel Feininger's Village in Thuringia...