Word: cued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frenchmen last week was what in the world the culprits thought they could do with their loot. The bandits had made off with newly minted, neatly packaged, bronze-colored ten-franc coins-1,770,000 of them, to be exact-that weighed 17.7 tons and would require nearly 30 cu. yds. of space merely to store. If the four bandits each spend $100 per day of their bulky loot without raising suspicion, they will be plunking down the last of their ten-franc pieces some time in the year...
...will be a slow, carefully monitored journey. First, 6 million cu. ft. of nitrogen will be blown through the pipeline to purge air from the system, reducing the threat of oil-vapor explosions. Next, a cylindrical plug, called a "pig," will be shoved into the line. Finally, after a signal from Valdez, workmen will open valves at Prudhoe, allowing long-capped crude to fill the line behind the pig. The moving oil will push the pig through the 48-in.-diameter steel pipe at 1 m.p.h. As it goes, the cylinder will shove out of the pipe any refuse that...
...place in bleached and bare California has been harder hit by the two-year drought than Marin County. Strict rationing has been imposed, with water priced as high as $50 per 100 cu. ft. for those who exceed their allotments. The first bills under the new plan arrived last week, and some of them made a splash...
...still insists that it committed no fraud: if a buyer expected a 350-cu. in, 170-horsepower engine, he got exactly that. In some cases, however, consumers have complained that their dealers could not replace oil filters or fan belts because the Chevy engines have slightly different specifications from Olds engines (GM says it told the dealers about the switches, though the dealers may not have paid attention or informed the buyers). The Chevy engines also delivered one or two fewer miles per gallon than Olds engines...
NATURAL GAS. The nation's cheapest fuel-whose artificially low price has led to its catastrophic depletion-would become more expensive. Federally controlled wellhead prices of newly discovered natural gas would rise by 300, to $1.75 per 1,000 cu. ft. Gas produced and consumed within the same state, which now is free of federal controls and sells for as much as $2, would be placed under the $1.75 federal "cap." Carter's reasoning: nationwide equalization of natural-gas prices should stop hoarding of supplies within one state, as occurred last winter, while other sections of the nation...