Word: gals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most likely proposal is a doubling of federal excise taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, which currently are $1.66 on a .75-liter bottle of whisky and 8? on a pack of smokes, and a boost in the 4?-per-gal. federal tax on gasoline, perhaps to 9?. Doubling the 2% federal tax on interstate telephone calls might be included as well. A portion of the added revenue, estimated at $9.2 billion, would be turned over to the states, but the size of their share is still uncertain...
Weakened and distorted by the warps of time, crackling with static interference, the famous voice from the past gloats over the possibilities: "Now you'd be amazed at how this story about the gal is spreading around the country . . . Awful nice gal, writes for the magazines and so forth...
California wine makers shipped some 22 million gal. of bubbly in 1980, up a cork-busting 52% over the 1970 level. French champagne makers in 1981 shipped to the U.S. more than twice as much as in 1971. The lesson was not lost on the French. Moët-Hennessy, a Paris-based conglomerate that is France's biggest champagne exporter to the U.S., bought 1,500 Napa Valley acres in 1973. Its Domaine Chandon in 1981 captured an estimated 25% of the market for sparkling wine made by the French method. The company, whose bubbly retails for about...
...postal card last week from some %- folks I know out in Hollywood, California. Seems they went there to make a motion picture and wound up gettin' their grits fried by a Florida boy name of Burt Reynolds and that lil ole big ole gal from Tennessee Dolly Parton. Leastways that's how they tell it. I figger it another way: If you plan to go to Hollywood you better be ready to Go Hollywood. But you decide for yer own self...
...billion, militants blocked the track of the new high-speed TGV train for one hour. Traveling salesmen got into the act with a horn-tooting, traffic-jamming demonstration in Paris' Place de la Concorde to demand new benefits, including tax-free gasoline (the current price of $2.77 per gal. includes $1.01 in taxes). Even during a generally triumphant visit to his former constituency in western Burgundy this month, there was an undercurrent of rural dissatisfaction. Said one protest sign along the way: WE WANT TO LIVE, NOT JUST SUBSIST...