Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...percentage point, to 5%, because of the bad weather. President Carter's economic package of $31.2 billion, to be spread out over 20 months, has been jeopardized: a large chunk of the tax rebates will be eaten up by an extra $7 billion to $8 billion in fuel bills. On top of this, food costs are soaring as the cold blights Florida fruits and vegetables and farmers have to buy additional livestock feed. Some economists figure that the inflation rate for the first quarter could reach 9%, compared with 4.2% in the final quarter...
Other Cabinet officers have taken the initiative that Carter urged on them. To shift fuel faster to the Eastern part of the country, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal waived the law requiring domestic ships to carry cargo between U.S. ports. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus urged the Governors of twelve states battered by the winter to ask his department for help. Housing and Urban Development announced an emergency policy of aid to low-income-housing residents who are threatened with eviction or loss of utilities...
Every crisis produces its heroes. In Fayette County, Pa., County Commissioner Fred Lebder has become a one-man fuel expediter for the needy. Working out of an old school building, he has established a hot line to distant families who are isolated on impassable rural roads or on unreachable hilltops. He scrounges oil and kerosene from places as distant as Kansas City, then commandeers county vehicles and tank trucks to carry the fuel to destitute homes. Occasionally, he pays for the fuel by personal check...
...about what to do for stricken people suffering chest pains and fainting spells. A fire in one house spread to eight others before heroic firemen could drag hoses through four blocks of drifted roads. One truck driver inched his way for two days to cover two miles, to bring fuel to the elderly at the Erie County Home and Infirmary...
Buildings are mostly heated by a central supply system that feeds them steam through underground lines. The main fuel in Russia is-weep, amerikantsy-natural gas, piped from Soviet Central Asia and Siberia. (The Soviet Union has one-fourth of the world's natural-gas reserves, but has instituted a widespread fuel-conservation program nonetheless.) Because natural gas is the cleanest-burning fuel of all, there is no air pollution...