Word: fiberglassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About six years ago, when my brothers, sisters and I were between the tender ages of nine and 13, my father got the brilliant idea that we should all take up skiing. He had picked up the sport, he said, back in college--way back before the down of fiberglass time, when they used wooden skis that just fastened on to your feet with whatever means available--and had enjoyed it. Apparently, the weekend trips to such winter wonderlands as Stowe and Killington were some of the best times he ever had in school. So despite protests from my mother...
...voluntary measures, consumption fell 23% in L.A. alone in July. Some homeowners are installing waterless toilets, which use a mineral-oil base that is constantly recycled and filtered through a 500-gal. waste tank under the house; every year a truck pumps out the refuse. Others have attached fiberglass tanks full of compressed air to cut down on the number of gallons of water required to flush a toilet. People are also affixing gadgets to their showers and faucets to decrease the flow. Many California families are voluntarily bathing in six gallons of water or less, then using...
...major gainer would be the insulation industry, which would get a lift from Carter's proposal to give federal tax credits to homeowners and businessmen who insulate their buildings. The industry-notably the three major fiberglass insulation producers, Owens-Corning, Johns-Manville and Certain-Teed-has been on a hot sales streak since 1973, when energy consciousness-raising really began. And the market has barely been scratched...
...join the onlookers. There was a flattened Dodge Dart sitting in the middle of the road. A tow truck was trying to pull it apart from a shiny, twisted Volkswagen Beetle resting against the curb. One of those flashy low sports cars sat on the other curb, its fiberglass body shattered in pieces on the tar. A fourth car had already been hauled off--only a broken headlamp remained. The passing traffic beat an empty rhythm on the metal and glass rubbish left in the street...
...Great Plains into vast seas of grain and feed a growing nation. Canals and railroads made long-distance travel possible, while the telegraph and, later, the telephone made it unnecessary. Mass production-another 19th century American invention-turned out a plethora of consumer goods, from automobiles and radios to fiberglass boats, all of which helped make the U.S. standard of living the highest in the world. Plenty gave the nation the opportunity to look beyond its own rapidly closing frontiers and explore the poles, the moon and now the surface of Mars (see SCIENCE...