Word: gals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total consumption of motor fuel in 1929 amounted to 409,240,000 bbl. of 42 gal. each. This quantity would require [a blend] of 20,000,000 bbl. of alcohol, obtainable, on a rough estimate, from about 40,000,000 tons of farm products or byproducts, damaged crops which at an average cost of say about $10 per ton would yield the farmers in this country about...
...meet this situation I recommend: 1) that the Federal tax on gasoline (1 per gal.) be continued until June 30. 1934, producing about $137,000,000 additional revenue; 2) that the manufacturers' excise taxes now imposed on certain 'articles be extended and in part replaced by a general uniform tax (excluding food). The annual yield of such a general tax at 2 1/4% would be approximately $355,000,000. The additional $492,000,000 of revenue produced in this way will avoid a further in crease in the public debt [i. e.-balance the budget...
...Department of Agriculture and Dr. Chester Deebell Tolle of the Bureau of Fisheries. Salmon oil (probably to be called Saliver, unless the connotation of saliva forbids) contains, they said, twice the Vitamin D potency of cod liver oil. Happy news to the salmon industry is that 1,000,000 gal. of the oil a year can be salvaged from canning wastes...
Though wine was much more remote than beer, California vintners were also stirred with new hope. In that State before Prohibition were 770 wineries, of which 166 are still in operation under Federal license. Under bond are some 18,000,000 gal. of wine waiting for legal floodgates to open. The first mouquin wine catalog since 1918 was issued last week in Manhattan. The firm announced that it would have a ship loaded with a million dollars worth of wine ready to sail into New York and unload an hour after sales became legal...
Self-Help. Over Los Angeles Pilot Paul Munro, flying solo, set the controls of his Curtiss Robin, crawled aft in the cabin, seized a fuel hose dangling from a : nurse ship. He helped himself to 132 gal. of gasoline, returned to his cockpit, flew on. Seven times Pilot Munro repeated the performance, landed only 43 min. short of a new (38 hr.) solo duration record because of a long-distance quarrel with the nurse pilot...