Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the fuel-saving Moodymobile [May 14] will never make it because it makes too much sense-and not enough dollars and cents for Big Oil or the car companies...
...creative people spent six weeks and $10,000 to alter a conventional car, and by utilizing available components achieved fuel consumption of 57.2 to 80 m.p.g. Meanwhile, in another story, you describe how carmakers are throwing away valuable time and resources on developing a dashboard that talks. The idea that the industry cannot develop a more efficient car is foolish. Even the Moodymobile can accelerate faster than the mossbacks in Detroit...
...began dropping. Captain Lux fought to get the craft under control. On Touhy Avenue, near Interstate 90, Chicago Patrol Officer Michael Delany was working with a dog at the police canine center. He turned to look up at the crippled airplane. "We could see all the fuel was spouting out the left side where the engine would be," he said. "And then as he got over our compound, the other engine shut off. So there was complete silence in the air. And then the plane turned, perpendicular to the ground, with the left wing facing down and the right wing...
Another threat is OPEC. Some of the economists expect the oil cartel to go on raising prices from the present average $16.40 per bbl. to about $18 by year's end. Higher fuel costs would both fan inflation and be an added tax on Americans' disposable income, thus prolonging the recession. Otto Eckstein, chief of Data Resources Inc., the economic analysis firm, favors putting a strict limit of 7 million bbl. per day on petroleum imports, which now average about 8 million bbl. daily; mandatory limits would probably result in gasoline rationing. Okun and other board members would...
Ford Motor Co. managers estimate that the 35 to 44 age group, with its interest in outdoor leisure pursuits, buys 25% of all vans and pickups. These consumers want fuel-efficient cars-but also fancy extras like air conditioning and stereo. Says Louis W. Stern, marketing professor at Northwestern University: "That age group wants the outward visible things that say, 'I have made it and I want to live comfortably...