Word: lookingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Old oil as new. In mid-1973, the Government set up a two-tier price structure that established a low rate (now $5.34 per bbl.) for old oil already in production and, as an incentive for exploration, a higher price (now $11.87) for new finds. Under near wartime security in...
"Daisy chains." Justice Department and FBI oil-fraud "strike forces," working with at least one grand jury in Tampa, Fla., are also looking into pricing swindles carried out by fuel brokers and oil companies. Some oilmen and brokers conspired to sell and resell refined oil several times among themselves, each...
Cover-ups and long delays. Congress has become increasingly unhappy with the glacial pace with which first the DOE and now the Justice Department have pursued their parallel investigations into the new-for-old and the daisy-chain swindles. Investigators for the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power are looking...
LMU has bought another 2,000 tons of corn for burning over the next six months. There is not enough surplus old seed corn for it ever to become a major fuel source, but the Department of Energy has commissioned an investigation into corn and other potential emergency fuels. Meanwhile...
Tricked out once more as the amiably inept Chief Inspector Clouseau, Peter Sellers is bungling his way into Le Club Foot, a Paris disco frequented by dope dealers. Just then a blonde plunges out, struggling to escape a nasty-looking killer. She trips over Clouseau, which is lucky for him...