Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some day gasoline rationing would allow only a few gallons per customer and that autos, buses, police cars and fire trucks across the nation would be stranded for lack of fuel. Suddenly, some day seems ominously close. Many parts of the country are, in fact, short of gasoline and diesel fuel. The scarcities threaten to persist, at least in some localities, throughout the peak summer driving season...
Texaco, the nation's largest marketer of gasoline, is already allocating its distributors only as much fuel as they received last year, even though demand is up. Gulf has declined to continue supplying diesel fuel to the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, and the city's 606 buses will be stalled if another supplier cannot be found by April 30. For the first time in memory, authorities in Des Moines and Boston have not received a single bid for contracts to supply city vehicles. Boston's police and fire departments have only enough gas to last through...
...Rolls-Royce company went bust in 1971, overwhelmed by the cost of producing advanced jet engines for American planes; its aero-engine division was nationalized by the Crown and a new operation, Rolls-Royce Motors, was created to continue making cars, diesel engines and turbine parts. The motor business has done well; it posted nearly $10 million in pre-tax profits last year on sales of $110 million. So Receiver Edward Rupert Nicholson had planned to sell shares in it to the British public and use the proceeds to settle bills run up by the aero-engine operation...
Parents welcome the discipline. Says James Smith, a diesel mechanic who has sent four children to Holy Angels: "In public schools, the kids come home with their heads busted open from fighting, and they also have drug problems. I don't have to worry about that at Holy Angels." Adds Teacher Lucille Whitehead, who also has sent four children to the school: "Parents are more cooperative. In public schools, kids do whatever they feel like doing and many parents don't seem to care. At Holy Angels, they even call if their kids don't have homework...
...trampoline, hurtling them up to the roof at 60 m.p.h.; cars at the rear telescoped into a mass of tangled metal. Rescue workers braved the possibility that more of the darkened tunnel's roof might collapse and worked with handsaws because of the danger of explosion of diesel fumes. They took three days to pull 90 injured passengers to safety and carry out 107 bodies. No one is sure how many corpses remain. The two trains may have carried as many as 400 passengers when they entered the tunnel...