Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will cost students approximately one and a half cents more to drive to Wellesley in the future, providing their cars can make 15 miles to the gallon...
When the B-29's Pilot George Jensen got the bomber up to 20,000 ft., the crew topped off the rocket plane's tanks with 45 gallons of "lox" (liquid oxygen), fuming and fiercely cold. That much lox had evaporated since the tanks were filled on the ground, and this climax flight would need every gallon. At 25,000 ft., three men lowered Bridgeman, bulky with his high-altitude gear, into the Skyrocket's cockpit...
...first big job-driving a new, high-pressure fueling system for B-36's. Until now, the big, sleek "Ramp-Roosters" have had to stay on the ground for hours while tank trucks, working at low pressure, gassed their huge tanks. With Packettes to help them, 8,000-gallon trucks, with big pumps working at 90 pounds pressure, will do the job in 20 minutes...
Stranger in the House. In Pittsburgh, after police raided her home and found two 10-gallon stills, 40 gallons of mash, 250 pounds of sugar, 2½ gallons of moonshine, Mrs. Letha Jackson explained to the judge: "Somebody must have left all that there...
...Boosts the tax on beer, gasoline (from 1½ ? to 2? a gallon), liquor, cigarettes (to 8? a package) and autos (from 7% to 10%), sets a 10% tax on the manufacturers' price of most appliances and 8% on auto parts...