Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessity of deadheading empty cars, barges or tankers, are so automated that only a handful of men can monitor a cross-country system. Pipelines are thus the cheapest transportation available for bulk commodities: gasoline can be shipped from Texas 900 miles to Chicago for less than a penny a gallon...
Diluted 35 Times. One way to cut costs by about 15% from the present $10,000 a year per patient, Engineer Lars Grimsrud told the artificial-organ enthusiasts, is to use a central, 150-gallon tank of purifying fluid instead of individual, 100-gallon tanks for each patient. In the central tank of the "monster," as the Seattle machine is called, the fluid is highly concentrated, and the machine dilutes it with as much as 35 times its own volume of water to get the right mixture for each patient. Patients still have personalized equipment at their bedsides: pumps...
...m.p.h. to get more. Reporters in the cars behind could scarcely keep up, and all kept a wary eye on their speedometers. In the President's car, someone gasped at how fast Johnson was driving. Quickly, Lyndon took one hand from the wheel, removed his five-gallon hat and flopped it on the dashboard to cover the speedometer. Later, White House Press Secretary George Reedy-in a statement almost as foolhardy as the President's driving-tried to deny that Johnson had exceeded Texas' 70 m.p.h. speed limit...
...week while committing the President to print, and even now draws guardedly: "You change Johnson too much and he looks like Eleanor Roosevelt." Don Wright of the Miami News finds Johnson a slippery subject. "If you aren't sure you have him, you put him in a ten-gallon hat." In the same way and for the same reason, many cartoonists suit up the President in cowboy uniform, right down to the Texas boots...
Lyndon even made U.S. hatmakers happy-something that tousled Jack Kennedy was never able to do-by inspiring an L.B.J. hat. The Hat Corp. of America announced plans to put out two-and three-gallon models with relatively narrow two-inch brims-scaled-down versions of Lyndon's five-gallon Stetson. One thing that is not scaled down is the price-which ranges from $12.95 to $100. All that Lyndon gets from the deal is publicity, but that's enough...