Word: feo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York regional office took phones off the hooks so that no callers could get through. Simon installed experienced administrators in the offices and issued guidelines that have enabled them to reduce the backlog of unanswered letters to 2,600 and to field phone calls promptly. The FEO staff is also shifting fuel from well-supplied regions to areas facing shortages. Simon's predecessors took far too long even to start looking for ships that could carry oil to New England, the most threatened region. Last month Simon's office informed New England utility executives that it had located...
...revised set of allocations, put together hastily by his Federal Energy Office to meet a Congress-set deadline. They contained one monumental blooper: as originally put forth, the regulations would have forced refineries to cut gasoline production 25%. After a day of scare headlines and stock market rout, the FEO confessed its error and announced that it would really order only a 5% reduction, based on 1972 levels...