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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chimney stacks along the St. Nicolaas beach on Aruba no longer belch smoke into the luminous tropical air. After 60 years of refining more than 6.5 billion bbl. of crude, including 1 out of every 16 bbl. of aircraft fuel used by Allied forces in World War II, Exxon's Lago refinery, once the largest in the world, will shut down this week. The closing marks the end of an era in the world oil industry and spells trouble for the 70-sq.-mi. Caribbean island. The refinery has provided Aruba with more than half its annual income for better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burning Out :A slump in Western refineries | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...like that, the corridor between Washington and Boston looks like a great oil spill at sea. By contrast, Idaho, because of its configuration and lack of residents, looks like an alabaster chimney with only a few smudges. Idaho, the popular saying goes, "is what America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Idaho: Living Outside of Time | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...pole mounted on a round base, solved the problem neatly. It would inject an expanding prong into the satellite's rear motor, locking on to it and providing a grip for the wrangler-astronauts. As Allen explained, "It's like opening an umbrella inside a chimney." In practice sessions Allen could not reach the handle to "open" the umbrella. Another redesign was needed. It was now August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Rounding Up the Runaways | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

Covello, said he will be the "band hunchback" because he is in a cast after falling off his chimney and breaking his back...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: Band Trumpets Its 65th Anniversary | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

Firemen arrived after Johnson and Miller had extinguished the flames and Deputy Fire Chief William F. Murray said because Romero's flue was closed the heat couldn't escape through the chimney so it "banked out into the room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Receives Minor Burns in Fire | 9/22/1984 | See Source »

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