Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counter, another casualty stood with his head bandaged and his eye black-the victim, like half a dozen others, of a falling Schindel. At tournament's end, Basel's Helvetia Society, with 1,112 points, no penalties, got the champion's oakleaf wreath and a two-gallon, silver-studded drinking horn brimming with white wine. Farmer Gruber, with 104 personal points and one incredible 340-yd. clout, was acclaimed the Schläger Koenig (batting king...
...vying with France's Renault and Italy's Fiat for first place in Continental Europe. At the reconstructed plant, 16,000 workers are now turning out 120,000 Volkswagen a year (about one out of every two German cars). Cheap ($1,095), economical (36 miles per gallon), and with a top speed of 70 m.p.h. from its aircooled four-cylinder engine, the Volkswagen is also beginning to edge into transatlantic markets. Volkswagen's total U.S. sales have already reached 1,200; it recently shipped its 3,000th car to Brazil, and this week, for the first time...
...Negro sharecropper in Gallion, La., light-skinned Theodore Roe got no schooling and was pushed into the world without a nickel. But Ted was luckier than a gallon of Fast Dice Oil. Fate led him to Little Rock, Ark., where he did odd jobs for a tailor and learned to sew. With this education, he pushed on to Chicago and went to work for a Negro tailor named Edward P. Jones. And that put Lucky Ted on the express escalator to Easy Street...
...demand for cortisone, as a treatment if not a cure, is already tremendous. In the DanviUe plant every few days (just how often is a Merck secret), chemical operators pour 1,500 lbs. of glistening white crystalline bile acid ($37,500 worth at quoted prices) into a 1,000-gallon still. In the still are hundreds of gallons of a solvent liquid with which the bile acid goes through its first reaction in its long, tedious process toward cortisone. Within hours this reaction is complete and a precipitant is added, causing Intermediate Compound No. 1 to separate from the solution...
Almost as surprising was the performance of a 1951 Nash Rambler, winner among ordinary stock cars. Driven by Mr. & Mrs. M. V. Reedy, the Rambler-whose fan belt and generator were disconnected, radiator grille blocked off, tires pumped up to 50 lbs.-averaged 74.48 miles per gallon. One consolation for run-of-the-road drivers: a car so altered can not be driven...