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...teens. The state's vegetable crop was almost totally destroyed. Ice formed in 90% of Florida's oranges, and only those immediately harvested and processed could be saved. Preliminary destruction is estimated at 20% of the state's orange crop, a loss of 49 million gal. of concentrated juice. Wholesale prices on canned concentrate immediately jumped...
Carter, who campaigned in 1976 on a pledge to balance the budget by 1981, was obviously trying to leave office with as small a deficit as possible, and he sometimes used mirrors to accomplish that. His revenue estimates, for example, include $13.1 billion from a proposed extra 10?-per-gal. tax on gasoline. Congress has often made it clear that it will not increase the tax on gas. Carter also proclaims that the annual pay raise for federal employees in October will be held to 5.5%. Such restraint seems unlikely; last year Carter initially suggested a 7.8% civil service...
...which are large trash bins used at construction sites, almost trebled to $72 a month during the same period. But the two entrepreneurs found ways to cut costs. One gambit was to drive their 1958 International truck across the Mexican border to buy gasoline in Tijuana at 42? per gal...
According to Consumer Reports, the 1.4 billion gal. a day of H2O that gush through the city's faucets are fresher, clearer and "more stimulating" than all 37 varieties of commercial bottled water tested. For those who insist on decanting their liquids, Macy's is even selling the stuff with a spritz of carbonation under the gold label: CELEBRATED NEW YORK WATER -THE DRINK OF MILLIONS. The price...
...will also rise by $5 billion, to perhaps as high as $100 billion. Higher crude prices will quicken the pace of inflation in all Western countries. Washington experts predicted that in the U.S. the OPEC decision would boost the cost of gasoline at the pump by 4.70 per gal. and the price of heating oil by the same amount...