cut - be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office" hack get by, grapple, make do, cope, manage, contend, deal, make out - come to terms with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on...
“The accident at Three Mile Island, as oddly as it sounds, was a technical success. The reactor shut down exactly as it was designed to. A nuclear meltdown does not result in a release of radiation. Just like your car engine overheating doesn’t spill gasoline. The Three Mile Island in...
The nozzle was stuck and every time I tipped the can up to pour, gas spilled all over the outside of the car. Scott let me use his gas can, so I poured his five gallons into my car then decanted my gas can back into his can. I managed to not spill much more gas. The other ...
Omaha, Nebraska, was the place to be. Omaha native Lynn Folgate remembered getting gas that year (her first year driving) for the low price of $0.18 a gallon, according to recollections shared with theRockford Register Star. Folgate also recalled that during her years...
- Absolute gas price: $0.19- Inflation-adjusted price: $2.79 (#33 most expensive year in 84-year span) Between 1943 and 1944, though the absolute price of gas remained steady at $0.19 a gallon, the inflation-adjusted price dropped by several cents. This has to do with a strengthening Am...