Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After two decades in the shade of the local 7-Eleven, lo and behold, milkmen are making their rounds again. Customers ranging from affluent suburbanites to working mothers are paying up to $1.99 per half-gallon for milk delivered to their doorsteps. Since the Palm Beach Milk Co. opened in May with 200 customers, it has added 800 people to its routes, and it expects to tack on | 500 more this fall. Welsh Farms in Long Valley, N.J., estimates that about 25% of its business now comes from home delivery...
...song was part of a station promotion Wednesday morning in which disc jockeys dressed as Arab sheiks and a service station offered drivers premium gasoline for 96 cents a gallon. Traffic tie-ups forced the event to end early...
...fallout from last week's invasion of Kuwait by Iraq has already been felt at gasoline stations. A survey conducted yesterday of full-service dealers in Massachusetts showed an average price increase of 4 cents per gallon for regular gasoline...
Some state officials yesterday questioned the motives behind the rise in gasoline prices, which have jumped more than a nickel per gallon in many locations...
...Carl's Sunoco in Warwick, R.I., where manager Tom Seaton said prices had increased three cents a gallon during the weekend, the extent of most complaints was a shift to self-serve...