Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When he ran short of cheap "sugarhead" moonshine to fill a big order consigned to Atlanta's Negro slums, 360-lb. Bootlegger John R. ("Fat") Hardy whipped up a substitute. Police said that he bought a 54-gallon drum of poisonous methyl alcohol, often used for hot-rod fuel, and mixed it with well water, peach flavoring, regular moonshine and a "beading oil" calculated to make it foam when shaken. Seventyseven gallons were delivered. Within hours Atlanta's Grady Negro Clinic began to fill with men & women who panted, frothed at the mouth and writhed in horrible convulsions...
...price change comes from the Revenue Act of 1951 passed by Congress two weeks ago. The bill places a general tax on liquor of $1.50 per proof gallon, or about 33 cents a bottle...
...excess-profits tax is boosted by lowering the "normal" earnings (exempt from the tax) to 83% of the 1946-49 base period instead of the current 85%. ¶ Whiskey taxes are raised 24? to 30? per fifth, beer $1 per barrel, cigarettes 1? per package, gasoline ½? per gallon, autos $50 for a light sedan. A new 10% excise tax is placed on power lawnmowers, home movie projectors, electric dishwashers...
...particularly American rural setting, they could hardly have chosen better. The low, hickory-wooded hills around the town were once the home of Winnebago and Pottawatomi Indians. The region's first settler was Thaddeus Morehouse, who opened a tavern to sell venison and whisky (at 25? a gallon...
Responsible for the increase in expenses for the 17-mile jaunt is a bill, signed into law yesterday by Governor Paul A. Dever, raising the state gasoline tax from three to 4.3 cents a gallon...