Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across the nation gas stations are closing on Sunday or shortening weekday hours to conserve supplies so that they will have a few drops left to sell at the end of the month. In the Pittsburgh area, some 60% of all stations now close on Sunday; in Madison, N.J., some stations are selling gas from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., closing until 4 p.m., then reopening till 7 p.m. To date, however, most drivers have simply grumbled and driven a bit farther to find an open station...
...support of the 14.5% price boosts they have imposed so far this year. The cutbacks have turned last year's world oil glut into a global shortage, which the resumption of exports from Iran has not relieved. U.S. imports, which now account for half the nation's oil consumption, are running 8% below two years ago, when demand was much lower...
Carter on Friday called reporters into the Oval Office to announce that "I was shocked and I was embarrassed for our nation's Government." A majority of the House members "have apparently put their heads in the sand," he said, and left him with "no authority to meet what could be a national crisis." Rather than submit another plan for Congress to pick apart, he said, "I challenge Congress" to come up with itsown rationing plan...
Maybe so, but it is suspected that this spring's energy troubles have outpaced Carter's comprehension, as well as that of most others. Now he may be in a catch-up race that could determine both bis future and that of the nation...
...past were reminded of nothing so much as a sapped, wizening portrait of Dorian Gray. Not without sympathy, one wigged barrister peered out the window at a throng of TV cameramen and photographers, who were dogging Thorpe's every entrance and exit. "Well, we're a sensationalist nation," he said, "but think of a poor blighter having to take 13 weeks of that...