Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blackout...
...pulling down an entire grid. Though FPC Chairman Joseph Swidler was preparing a report for President Johnson, final recommendations will take more intensive studies. Meanwhile, there were signs that Congress will be asked to tighten FPC's police powers. Next week a special House Commerce subcommittee investigating the blackout will hold its first meeting in Washington...
Insurance for Future. One incontrovertible lesson imparted by the blackout was that more independent auxiliary power units are needed for use in such emergencies. The Federal Aviation Agency rushed four backup generators from an Oklahoma City warehouse to New York City's airports, where the runways were out of commission during the critical hours. Simultaneously, the FAA fired off telegrams to the nation's 25 major airports requesting them to specify what standby equipment they need to ensure continued operation. In New York City, 13 hospitals made plans to purchase emergency power units; two of the hospitals...
...London's Mayfair, office workers stumbled around in inky, icy blackness. At the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, diplomats read their documents by candlelight. Scotland Yard sped emergency flashlight details out to direct traffic at major intersections. Throughout great areas of southern England and the Midlands the blackout spread. Sections of Birmingham sputtered and went out, as did Maidenhead, downtown Derby and scores of other places...
...other side of the Potomac, at Civil Defense headquarters, an official first heard about the blackout from a home-bound employee. When it did swing into action, the unwieldy agency determined that...