Word: gals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...introducing it by summer are fifty-fifty. Just in case, the FEO put out details of what rationing would be like. Every driver over 18 would get an allotment of coupons every three months, probably at a local post office. Drivers in rural - '- areas would get 41-49 gal. a | month. Motorists in large cities that have relatively poor public transportation, including Miami, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., would receive roughly 90% of the rural allotment. In big cities that have good transit facilities, including New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco, drivers would get 80% of the rural ration...
...Vietnamese air force flies strafing missions in F-5 jets that consume 575 gal. of JP4 per hour, and it carries men and supplies aboard C-130 transports that burn 785 gal. of the same fuel per hour. The army rides into battle on armored personnel carriers that get three miles to the gal. and in M48 tanks using 1⅓ gal. per mile. By U.S. Defense Department reckoning, the South Vietnamese military goes through fuel at a rate of more than 5 million bbl. per year -a huge amount by Southeast Asian standards...
Jeannette H. Haase, its director--who describes herself as "the kind of middle-class, Jewish gal for whom the Radcliffe Institute was beyond reach"--says that there is a critical need to re-evaluate the role of women in the health care industry, particularly women in low and mid-level jobs. Although the program's focus is on women, it is tied in with the specific problem of ambulatory health care--any service that is provided outside of a hospital, whether in a doctor's office, in a clinic, or in the home, and including such things as preventitive care...
Motorists asked Derwinski if the price of gasoline would really climb 200 per gal., as the papers were saying. Over coffee, Steel Salesman Tom Erdmann wanted to know: "What are we going to do? I drive 30,000 miles a year." A school official wondered how many buses he would be able to keep running. And everyone was worried about rationing...
...through December, not the current round of increases; consumers will start feeling January's jumps on Feb. 1, when the next batch of boosts will be permitted under price controls. Federal Energy Chief William Simon predicted that gas will go up a total of 80 to 110 per gal. in coming weeks, jacking up nationwide average pump prices to somewhere between 510 and 540 per gal. for regular. Heating oil likely will rise a dime a gallon by March 1, to an average of 390 plus tax-a third more than it cost even last month...