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...prosperity while they drew up austerity plans? They boosted the cost of crude by slowing production, until a barrel fetched nearly $35. Americans, like Europeans, started to grumble at the steady rise in the price they paid to gas up. By summer, U.S. drivers were paying around $1.70 per gal., Europeans anywhere from...
...pump up to 500 gal. a minute of that stuff, wide-eyed Perrier officials told the two-town population of 1,000, and you won't see a ripple of an impact on your springs, lakes and streams. Plus, we'll bring jobs and money to the community. They had just said the same thing in another part of Wisconsin and were run out of town. But they had learned nothing about the state's long-standing conservation ethic, or that lecturing Badgers on the environment is the p.r. equivalent of telling them how to make cheese...
...masterpiece, but with two engines failing and a fire on takeoff, the crew had little real hope," says former pilot Manton Fain. About a minute after lifting off, four miles from the runway's end, the plane rolled left and slammed into the ground. Its more than 31,500 gal. of jet fuel erupted in an instant inferno. All 100 passengers--mostly German tourists--and nine crew members were killed, along with five people who were in the small hotel the plane plowed into. It was the first fatal accident for a Concorde and--because the plane's final, desperate...
FUEL TANKS 13 tanks carry 31,500 gal...
...good sports; we don't want to spoil The Perfect Storm for the illiterati. But even the multiplex ignoscenti will get enough early clues to know that something wrong is in the wind. Gloucester gal (Diane Lane) to her sailor beau (Mark Wahlberg) before he boards the Andrea Gail: "Don't go, Bobby. I got a bad feelin'." Bobby: "Just one more time, I promise." This dialogue, familiar from a quillion melodramas, is always uttered by the sap about to step into the old dark house, the line of fire or the unforgiving sea. The Perfect Storm has more whispers...