Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous party was a scavenger hunt staged in Paris in 1927, with a gallon of Patou perfume awarded to the player who brought back the most unusual items. Recalls Elsa: "The players took off, and a series of disturbances promptly broke out all over Paris...
...effect of blood gushing from a samurai victim's chest, a report from the Tokyo bureau enabled him to write in his review of The Idiot (May 17): "Mifume's sword trips a valve concealed beneath his opponent's kimono and opens a tank containing a gallon of vegetable oil, iron oxide, water and chocolate sauce under 40 pounds of pressure. Spfluurrroooooooooosh!" He composes his reviews on a yellow-lined pad in pencil ("Typewriters talk back at you"), leaving a wide margin for notes about his own copy. He does not feel that readers should take...
...Hero Jimmy Doolittle, who was then a vice president at the Shell Oil Co., to have his company's experts concoct a fuel that would not evaporate at high altitude. Shell did. The results speak for themselves. Says Johnson: "We have an airplane getting four miles to the gallon and traveling ten times the speed of a truck. That's pretty good...
...sales have been growing 10% a year, as farmers pour on more of it to coax higher output from their Government-limited acreage allotments. Meanwhile, the oilmen have been itching to diversify because gasoline wars have hit prices (last week in the Midwest they were down another penny per gallon to 10.75? wholesale...
...sides of their cars-and they owe it all to a 500-lb. hunk of aluminum, nickel and cast iron that is just as tough as they are: the Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine. Force-fed by fuel injection, the Offy gulps methanol (wood alcohol) at the rate of one gallon every four miles. It has only two gears-low and high-and four cylinders, but it turns out 100 h.p. for each cylinder, and it can propel a racing car at 180 m.p.h. In 29 years of rattling its pistons in the Indy 500, the Offy has lost only three...