Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kangaroo likes to lick the dew off the steel track. Or when a yellow-eyed dingo, Australia's coyote, will stand its ground and stare sourly at the train while a spindly-legged emu, the local version of an ostrich, will try to outrun the 3,300-h.p. diesel express...
...diesel engines pull...
...them; many predict that a shortage will impair their ability to harvest crops this fall. Truckers are also hurting. Chicago's Spector Freight System Inc., for example, expects to spend $1,000,000 more this year because of a 7?-a-gallon jump in the wholesale price of diesel fuel. Before the freeze, prices were rising at the corner gas station as well; in Boston they went up 2? a gallon in the past week. The Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America, whose members buy fuel from major oil companies and sell it at cut-rate prices, reports...
...such economic chaos that there will be riots-and then the Lon Nol government will fall like an overripe fruit." In the city itself last week, prices continued to rise. The arrival of a few fuel convoys had almost no effect on the chronic shortage of kerosene, gasoline and diesel...
...city has enough rice to last for two months, and the capital's central market is well stocked with imported goods, fruits and vegetables. But there is only enough diesel fuel to power the city's water system for 19 days, and the electricity supply is dependent on the arrival of further convoys up the Mekong. The airlift announced by the U.S. this week is limited to JP4 jet fuel for the Cambodian air force's tiny fleet of about 20 helicopters...