Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pensions, cheap school lunches, veterans' bonuses and highway projects. But he also gave it the highest per capita state tax in the U.S.; he had his subservient legislature double the sales tax, up the cigarette tax to 8 a package, push the gasoline tax to 9 a gallon. Even Huey's son, U.S. Senator Russell Long, turned against Uncle Earl's machine in the primary, and remained aloof in the runoff, thereby dividing the dynasty against itself...
Spirits. In Birmingham. Ala., cops got a tip and rushed to a local cemetery, dug into an odd-looking grave, exhumed a 55-gallon moonshine still, uncovered its fuel supply in the adjacent plot...
Conductor Efrem Kurtz, his Houston Symphony and two vocalists gave the suite the full ten-gallon-hat treatment. If it seemed a bit long (50 minutes) and repetitive, few in the audience minded much; it was Texas spirit all the way. Composer Guion, who attended the performance with the symphony society's President Ima Hogg,* stood up to receive an ovation with Kurtz...
Fuel Fixer. An emergency fuel unit for automobiles and trucks was brought out by the Viking Tool & Machine Corp. of Belleville, NJ. The gadget, which holds one gallon of gas, is installed on the carburetor, and operates independently of the regular fuel system. It is guaranteed to start a car when it is out of gas, has a frozen or leaky gas line or a faulty fuel pump. Price...
...Willys, which has not made a conventional passenger car since 1942, claimed that the Aero's six-cylinder, go-h.p. engine gets more horsepower for its size than any other U.S. automobile engine. With overdrive ($86 extra), Willys said the Aero can do 35 miles on a gallon of regular-grade gasoline. One big drawback: the small Aero (gft. wheel base, 2,570 Ibs.) is high-priced. List price, without extras: $1,824 to $1,903 (f.o.b. Toledo), considerably higher than other small cars now on the market...