Word: carred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most drivers, of course, remained as quietly idle as their engines while they waited as long as four or five hours, at least in the Northeast, to fill their tanks. They read, listened to radios or cassettes, sometimes watched a small TV set installed in their cars. Some chatted with other motorists or bought food and drink from enterprising kids working the lines. But growing anger and frustration all too often erupted in name calling, fistfights, occasional stabbings and shootings. While a gas-station owner in Freemansburg, Pa., rushed to help his bleeding wife, who had been accidentally struck...
Like the horse rustlers of an earlier era, gas thieves were on the prowl. Usually they siphoned off gas; occasionally they took the whole car. Some resorted to ingenious ruses. Two men were arrested in Miami after police discovered that a floor board had been cut out of their dilapidated van. Underneath was $5,000 worth of equipment, including intake hoses, battery-operated pumps and a 350-gal. storage tank. Apparently the pair would drive into a station, casually park over an unlocked underground tank and help themselves. On a smaller scale, thieves faced another kind of retribution...
...industries have been so immediately and painfully dented by the oil crunch as U.S. automaking. Mainly because of scarce gas and exploding prices, car sales have skidded from an annual rate of about 12 million units in March to roughly 10 million today, a drop of 26% from last year's record mid-June pace. A main contributor to the slump is buyers' snubbing of luxury and even standard models, while the demand for fuel-thrifty small cars is far outstripping Detroit's ability to produce them. Buyers are increasingly turning to Toyotas, Volkswagens and other economically...
Just as in the panicky period that followed the Arab oil embargo in 1973, the major auto firms were caught off guard by the sudden buyer switch to smaller cars. Of General Motors' new X car line, President Elliot Estes notes: "We guessed in favor of the six-cylinder engines. But right now sales are running 60 to 40 in favor of the fours." GM is getting no help from its big cars either. Sales of the standard Chevrolet are off 20% since January; Buick Le Sabres are limping almost 29% behind 1978's pace, and purchases...
...Night Flight," Lodger's most interesting song, Bowie becomes a British pilot pushing his luck somewhere in Central Africa. Bowie spits out syllables like gunfire, Eno's crickets' chatter, the band thumps out a halting beat, and Eno chants Swahili in the background. If you heard it on your car radio, you'd probably switch the station, and if you heard it on a transistor radio you'd think you were between stations--but on a good stereo, maybe with headphones, you just might be up there over Mombassa, running guns or running out of fuel...