Word: gals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cream (Gal) 20¢ 48?...
Milk Drinkers. Speaking for a "million farmers," Louis John Taber, Master of the National Grange, fairly flooded the committee with agricultural statistics to establish the benefits U. S. husbandmen have received from Prohibition. His best statistic: before Prohibition every U.S. citizen drank 42 4/10 gal. of milk per year; today each drinks 60 gal. He argued that grains which once went into liquor now make breakfast foods, that corn is higher in value now than before 1920, that the price of grapes has increased. Mr. Taber painted farm conditions in such cheerful colors that he seemed sorely embarrassed when...
Some 260 miles above Warsaw, a surly workman was discharged from a chemical factory last week. In revenge he broke a petcock, emptied a 3,500-gal. tank of carbolic acid into the river Czarna. Warsaw blanched, for the Czarna flows into the Pilika, and the Pilika flows into the Vistula, and the Vistula flows past Warsaw, and from it the city gets its water supply, filtering it at a great reservoir outside Warsaw. Officials at the Warsaw waterworks endeavored to calm apprehensions, pointed out that after floating 75 miles, 3,500 gal. of carbolic acid would purify rather than...
...Columbus, Ohio, over the door of the parsonage of the Antioch Negro Baptist Church, a sign said: ''Healtho, $25,000 bonded product, sold here." Within dozed Andrew Mabe, 83. Law officers arrested him, confiscated seven gallons of booze, a 40-gal. still...
...stills seized in northeastern States in 1929, 3,430 were manufacturing the best grade of alcohol from corn sugar. Some plants could produce 2,000 gal. of alcohol...