Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday night after that issue came out, Gordon Neal, at home on his Mount Vernon farm, got an unexpected phone call. The caller: President Jimmy Carter, who had been reading TIME and had seen our reference to the Neals' frozen water pipe. The two chatted about the fuel crisis, Neal's 160-acre farm and the weather. It turned out that Neal's pipe had burst and been repaired. He had, in fact, been in the bathtub when his wife called him to the phone. Said Neal last week: "I told Emma that if that ever happened...
There were so many factors that fed this sixty-minute spectacle with emotional fuel. It would be a crime to brush it off with the superficial characterization that "Both teams played real strong hockey." Tangible examples of expertise abounded. Among them were...
...individual states and asking "What can we do to help you?" Among the moves under consideration was widespread use of the National Guard, the Corps of Engineers, the Forest Service and agencies of the Interior Department. The Commerce Department was instructed to help business and industries with fuel conservation plans: one possibility is a four-day work week. Meanwhile. state authorities were moving fast on their own. Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp ordered all of his state's schools closed. The National Guard was called out to help remove snow in Buffalo; even a local course in arctic survival techniques...
...greatest trouble, of course, is the worsening fuel shortage. All over the East, natural gas that had been stored for use in February and March was piped out in January; last week storage levels were one-fifth of those a year ago. Nearly every gas-transmission company has curtailed deliveries to utilities, and utilities in turn have cut off service to factories. Plant closings, often for only a day or two at a time, have idled 400,000 workers by White House estimate, and the blizzardy blast of arctic air at week's end threatened many more layoffs...
...milder weather. This year the prayers were unanswered." The Interstate Commerce Commission directed railroads to give priority to oil tank cars and allowed oil trucks licensed to operate in only one state to cross state lines. The Federal Energy Administration ordered some refineries to cut production of jet fuel so that they can make more heating...