Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike most countries, Israel did not lose its fuel supply by the closing of the Suez, because Egypt for eight years has barred any Suez cargoes destined for Israel. Instead, Israel got hurt when Russia, siding with the Arabs, suspended its oil-for-oranges contract with Israel and so cut off 20% of Israel's oil imports...
...result, though few truckers are being hurt yet, the industry wonders if piggybacking might not eventually do it more harm than good. Says W. Stanhaus, president of Spector Freight System, Inc., which operates some 1,700 tractors and trailers: "Some roads have been prone to discourage cooperation, provide an exclusive service of their own, engage in public relations and power politics campaigns that would indicate that they are primarily interested in the elimination of all forms of competition...
Towards Yesterday. Tragically, the Byrd program has hurt most what Harry Byrd is trying to protect: the education of Virginia's children. Construction of needed school facilities is lagging badly; school boards are hard put to find buyers willing to invest in Virginia's confusion...
...blamed Truman and Acheson for "failure to turn truce into peace before Russia [could achieve the] strength to interfere so ominously in the Middle East." Concluded Thomas: "The President, however, and the American people, who must deal with things as they now are, can only be hurt by the kind of pontificating [exemplified by] the Alsop effort...
...France, where 30% of all factories depend upon oil for fuel, the pinch is already starting to hurt. French railroads are cutting back schedules, switching from diesels to steam engines. Gasoline deliveries are down 20%, and the booming French Riviera tourist resorts are crying disaster; within a few days of the first gasoline restrictions, hotel occupancy dropped as much as 75% below normal. In Denmark and Spain there is also the glum specter of rationing, with fuel supplies down as much as 25%; Sweden and Switzerland have already banned pleasure driving on weekends...