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None of this means that the energy crisis is anywhere near over; indeed, all indications are that it will become a more or less permanent feature of American life. The Arabs coupled their announcements of production increases with gargantuan price boosts that will fan inflation throughout the West. And supply is still pinched; in the U.S., the Nixon Administration felt compelled to announce surprisingly detailed-and quite severe -stand-by plans for gasoline rationing, even though it hopes that it will never have to put them into effect. Conservation measures are still necessary, but the crisis is looking less like...
...earth and rock, and finally gouge out the oil-shale beds 100 ft. to 850 ft. below the surface. The other technique, to be tried at the remaining leaseholds, will be to deep-mine with conventional pillar-and-room tunneling, as is done with coal-but on a gargantuan scale. More than 70,000 tons of oil shale might be moved daily from mine to processing plant. There, the shale would be crushed and heated to about 950° F. in retorts. The extracted oil would then be refined...
...gasoline more expensive by lifting price controls and letting the price rise as high as the traffic would bear. That idea is supported by free-market advocates but has no serious support within the Government. It would be as unwieldy and inequitable as the tax plan-and would channel gargantuan added revenues not to the Government but to gas-station owners and oil companies...
...small concrete pathway separates mammoth Littauer Center from the gargantuan Undergraduate Science Center. It would be difficult to drive a large truck between the giants--nevertheless Harvard wanted to build a $5 million International Affairs Center on that spot...
Getting this gargantuan figure there on the page is Pritchett's task as a biographer, and in many ways he succeeds. He has a shrewd sense of the whole Balzac family, particularly the author's adoring mother and sister who alternately lent him money foolishly, connived with him against creditors and betrayed him to competing women...