Word: gals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general strike of the area's 20,000 workers. From Marseille to Perpignan near the Spanish border, French growers, meanwhile, set up roadblocks of burning tires to halt the influx of hated Italian vino by truck. Italians threatened to retaliate by stopping yearly imports of 2.8 million gal. of French champagne, plus cereals and meat...
Incensed by government inaction, some French peasants occupied the Cathedral of St. Pierre in Montpellier and hoisted a separatist flag, consisting of a cross on a wine red field. A group of French commandos broke into warehouses in Marseille and destroyed 450,000 gal. of Italian wine. Countless other barrels were sloshed into the Canal du Midi at Béziers, in a Gallic version of the Boston Tea Party...
...increase in milk supports would raise consumer prices by 6? per gal. on milk and 15? per Ib. on butter, the Department of Agriculture estimates. The rise in target prices on cotton would immediately start Government payments flowing to farmers because the new target price would be above the present market level of about 40? per Ib. The rise could also cause some farmers who had been diverting land from cotton to soybeans to switch back again, thereby shrinking soybean supplies and possibly raising prices of the beans and also of cattle and hogs that are fed on them...
...Democrats' objective in the tariff fight was to gain time to bargain with the President on comprehensive energy legislation. As an alternative to the President's program, Democrats last week proposed a plan that would raise the federal gasoline tax from the present 40 to 9? per gal. and give rebates to buyers of fuel-efficient cars (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Ford said that the Democrats' recommendations could "possibly be meshed with ours"-a sign that he agreed with Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, who said of the President: "He can't carry the day alone. Neither...
...comeback saga. In 1971. she stumbled badly in an inane and short-lived TV series called Shirley's World. In the role of a global journalist, MacLaine had hopes of playing herself: an openhearted, open-minded, outspoken female. The show's producers wanted a clever career gal who keeps her pantsuit on and plays mediating momma to her contentious male col leagues. The results were a disaster...