Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept a very careful check of mileage and gasoline consumption and found that over the entire trip from Orono, Me. to Los Angeles - a distance of approximately 4,300 miles - we averaged 26.52 miles per gallon...
...about giving us the results in average miles per gallon for each...
...public was not allowed to see the engine. Outside experts guessed that the experimental Whizzard gets from five to seven miles on a gallon of kerosene. Rover Co. engineers hope that the mileage can be doubled by a "heat-exchanger" now under development. They think that the new engine will be used first on trucks and long-distance buses. Its chief advantages are simplicity, cheap fuel and low weight per h.p. Its high idling speed will be a serious disadvantage in stop-and-start traffic...
...officials made plans to carry the case of Coca-Cola right into the Quai d'Orsay, headquarters of French diplomacy. France's ban, State was prepared to point out, was contrary to Franco-American trade agreements which provided for low U.S. tariffs (40^ to $1.25 on a gallon) on most French wines in return for similar French concessions on soft drink concentrates...
...party given by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Hearst's Bob Considine did little better; he drew only frozen stares with a wisecrack about 10-cc syringes. Hard-bitten Reporter James Kilgallen also stopped a Manchester dowager cold with his definition of how to pronounce his name: "Kill gallon, madam. Like booze...