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...fourth quarter of 1973, the company was headed for a modest profit. But the promising climb turned into another tailspin when fuel prices began to rise, and Pan Am wound up 1973 with an $18.4 million loss. In the last three months of 1973, fuel leaped 8.8? per gal, to 23.3?, adding $31.4 million to Pan Am's bills. This year the company predicts that fuel will average more than 35? per gal., lifting the company's expenditures by $204 million. Without some help from the Government, Seawell predicts, Pan Am could lose another $85 million this year...
Along with their loss of freedoms, Greeks under the new regime continue to suffer from the economic decline that started while Papadopoulos was in power. Inflation is running at an annual rate of 35%; the price of gasoline ($2.50 per gal.) is the highest in Europe, and olive oil, a Greek staple, costs nearly twice ($2 a liter) what it did last year...
...Tell Overture, theme music for The Lone Ranger. Or with Rimski-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, accompanying another episode of The Green Hornet. Once more The Shadow purrs, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" Sergeant Preston of the Yukon hustles his huskies, Our Gal Sunday strives to find happiness with a wealthy, titled Englishman, and 15-year-old Speed Gibson of the International Police doggedly pursues his archfoe, The Octopus...
...only part of a more disturbing nationwide and even worldwide problem. In the past few years alcoholism-among youths and adults alike-has at last been recognized as a plague. From 1960 to 1970, per capita consumption of alcohol in the U.S. increased 26%-to the equivalent of 2.6 gal. of straight alcohol per adult per year. It is now at an alltime high, probably surpassing the levels during such notoriously wet eras as the pre-Civil War and pre-Prohibition years. Moreover, according to the NIAAA, about one in ten of the 95 million Americans who drink...
...this leaves one thing that limits the profligate use of energy: high gasoline prices. To fill up the tank of a big car can run as much as $11 or $12 in places where gas costs more than 60? per gal. It remains uncertain whether such prices will cool the ardor of a nation for which freewheeling mobility has become a way of life. What is all too certain, on the other hand, are the consequences of the resumption of wasteful driving habits: the return of spot shortages, canceled trips, the whole headache of having to do without gasoline...