Word: gals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many cities last week, motorists must have felt as if they were on a nostalgia trip. At Alert service stations in the South, dealers were selling unleaded gas for as little as 87.9 cents per gal. and throwing in a car wash to boot. Downtown Standard Service in Denver offered unleaded for 85.9 cents per gal., down from $1.19 in mid-February. Some Houston dealers chopped the price of regular, which was as high as $1.24 last month, down to 69.9 cents...
...cocaine aboard flights from the main producing countries, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. Inspectors at Miami International Airport found a near- record shipment of 3,227 lbs. of cocaine in January aboard a cargo jet owned by Avianca, the Colombian national airline. Agents discovered the drug when they opened 55-gal. barrels of passion fruit in syrup and found football- shaped containers of coke bobbing in the mixture...
...cost oil could help the Federal Government deal with its debilitating budget deficit. As long as crude prices are falling, increased energy taxes would be a relatively painless way of raising money. In the Senate, New Jersey Democrat Bill Bradley has proposed tripling the current 9 cents-per-gal. gasoline tax, a move that he estimates would bring the Government an extra $15 billion a year. President Reagan conceded for the first time last week that he would listen to proposals for an energy tax, but only if it would be used for reducing other levies rather than purely...
...meantime, U.S. consumers should expect a break in their energy bills. But retail prices take about 45 days to respond to crude-oil declines because the fuel currently on sale was made with more expensive crude. The average U.S. price for regular unleaded gasoline is now $1.15 per gal., already down from a peak of $1.41 in 1981. While most filling stations have made no dramatic cuts yet, some experts think that the price could fall to 90 cents by late spring...
Light also testified that he won an acquittal for Billy ("Wild Bill") Cutola, a Teamsters Union official who, he said, shot a suspected informant in the head. According to Light, the victim was stuffed into a 55-gal. drum, which Cutola then dumped into the East River. As Light tells it, the body's gases caused the drum to rise to the surface. "Next time, I'll know better," a jocular Cutola reportedly told Light after he was cleared of the murder charge. "I'll cut his stomach open...