Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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House Speaker Tip O'Neill predicts that his restive Congress is going to raise the defense budget even over the $11 billion increase (total $125.8 billion) proposed by Jimmy Carter. The eloquent and insistent voices for disarmament from Iowa's Senator John Culver and Wisconsin's Les Aspin have been subtly toned down lately as the facts of the Soviet buildup have hardened...
...serious problem is gasohol's high price. The pure, 200-proof alcohol used in the mixture costs $1.49 per gal. wholesale, while unleaded gas is about 47?. Even in Iowa, where the state has removed the tax on gasohol, the fuel costs 76.5? at the pump, about 2? more than unleaded. In other states, where the fuel tax is imposed, the spread between gasohol and gasoline can range...
...shout down a new Administration plan that will sharply cut both the cost and the size of the passenger train network. Transportation Secretary Brock Adams would eliminate 12,000 lightly traveled miles of Amtrak's 27,500-mile network, mostly in the South and West. Five states (Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Vermont and Alabama) would lose all passenger train services. But Adams claims that the summed Amtrak could still serve 91% of its present customers and all of America's 25 or so largest cities (except Atlanta, Cincinnati and Dallas-Fort Worth...
Waterloo, Iowa...
...spring Widerman will drop down to 114 or 115 lbs. to compete in men's open freestyle competitions against older and more experienced wrestlers. This will give him a chance to test himself before entering the National AAU meet which will be held in April at the University of Iowa...