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...force rollbacks of some gas-station prices. A lower court earlier had enjoined the COLC from enforcing Phase IV guidelines that would require the price cuts; they will now go into effect Sept. 8. The COLC has also demanded that Atlantic-Richfield Co. (ARCO) justify a 1?-per-gal. increase on gasoline and a 2?-per-gal. hike on fuel oil that the company posted Aug. 20. If the company's data do not convince the COLC that the boost was forced by increased costs, chiefly for buying imported crude oil, it may be ordered to cancel the rise...
...stations they supply. TCAs are discounts on wholesale gas that enable a dealer to hold prices down at the pump, usually during a price war; removing them causes prices to shoot up. As TCAs came off, the national average price of regular gas rose from less than 34? per gal. to more than 37?; in some markets, prices rose 6? per gal. in a matter of days. After the freeze went into effect Aug. 15, of course, the steep rise stopped and, in some markets, prices resumed normal sharp fluctuations...
...majority is sold to truck lines that broadcast their willingness to lease, say, ten trucks from owner-operators. Some large truck stops have also bought time. The Mass 10 truck stop near Boston took a month's advertising and increased diesel fuel sales from 150,000 gal. monthly...
...contrast to the 1969 Woodstock festival, Summer Jam had a whopping stage (100 ft. by 60 ft. by 12 ft.) completed three weeks before the show. The electrical wires were all put underground, the 1,000 portable toilets were in place a week early, and the 100,000 gal. of bottled water arrived days in advance of the crowds. Koplik and Finkel also laid on five helicopters for constant use by medical personnel, the press and the musicians...
...detector was designed by Chemist Raymond Davis Jr. of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Shielded from all other radiation by the rock above, the detector consists of a 100,000-gal. vat of a cleaning fluid called tetrachloroethylene. A small number of incoming neutrinos collide with chlorine atoms in the fluid. The collisions convert the chlorine to radioactive atoms of the element argon, which can then be counted. Davis calculated a year ago that on the basis of what scientists know and theorize about the sun, less than one-fifth as many neutrinos are radiating from it as would be expected...