Word: gas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which is still hurting from the two-month loss of Iranian crude earlier this year, almost any new interruption in supply, no matter how modest or brief, will lead to tighter markets and higher prices. In their present jittery state, Americans are ready to start topping off gas tanks for almost any reason. Not only does the memory of a summer spent in gas lines remain fresh and infuriating, but so does the specter of the 1973 Arab embargo, which ushered in the age of energy upset...
...came across the low-lying fields as a drifting fog that some men saw as gray, some as yellow, some as green."Thus did Historian Ralph Allen describe the deadly mist of chlorine gas that ravaged the Canadian First Division at Ypres in 1915. Last week, as Canada celebrated Remembrance Day-the 61st anniversary of the end of World War I-fear of another kind of chlorine gas attack forced the evacuation of Mississauga...
...than from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay or the Gulf of Mexico. Best guess: 123 million Barrels over the 20-year lease period. Brought up in a single haul, that would provide the U.S. with only about one week's supply of oil. If not oil, then natural gas could be drawn from Georges Bank. But the estimated yield of 870 billion cu. ft. over 20 years is paltry compared with the 19.3 trillion cu. ft. now used annually in the U.S. The retort by oil advocates, of course, is that in an energy crisis any possible sources should...
...chemical dumps despite evidence that 90 per cent of the nation's 50,000 hazardous waste desposal sites are leaking. "Because of pressure from the White House to fight inflation," EPA branch chief William Sanjour reports, "we were directed to avoid regulating hazardous waste from the oil and gas industry, electric power companies, and other large industries. We were told to do things which we knew were not right. We were required to write public documents which we knew were misleading...
Three companies--Gibbs Oil, Texaco, and Top Gas-are offering the product in Massachusetts...