Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...previous women's gathering could begin to match its diversity of age, income, race, occupation or opinion. There were 1,442 delegates who had been elected at 56 state and territorial meetings that were open to the public; 400 more had been appointed at large by an overseeing national commission. They were white, black, yellow, Hispanic and Indian?and four were Eskimo. They were rich, poor, radical, conservative, Democratic, Republican and politically noninvolved. Three Presidents' wives were guests: Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson. (Jackie Onassis turned down an invitation; Pat Nixon was ill.) One step removed from...
Certainly, Washington and the whole nation are watching the leaders of this increasingly vocal majority. As was echoed many times in Houston, it is a particularly exciting time to be a woman...
Neither have the nation's utilities and industries. They have taken a variety of steps to avoid the fuel shortages, plant closings and transportation tie-ups that made the bitterly cold winter of 1976-77 a national hardship to remember-and to learn from. Utilities have increased their storage capacity for natural gas: the South Jersey Gas Co., for example, this summer added 1.2 billion cu. ft., an increase of 30%. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. has arranged to buy synthetic gas as a backup in case pipeline deliveries of natural gas from Texas prove insufficient. Many...
Last year, coal stored in railroad cars and silos froze into lumps that were too big to use. Never again, vow the people at Chessie System, the nation's largest coal hauler. Chessie has built three "galloping Gerties": huge steel vibrating fingers that loosen coal in one car every three minutes. Other railroads now have similar contraptions. To reduce the possible impact of a threatened United Mine Workers strike, industries and utilities increased their coal inventories during the autumn months...
...important-and unpredictable-factor, of course, is the weather itself. New England has had an unseasonably warm November, while last year's was "the coldest in 30 years," says the New England Fuel Institute's Charle Burkhardt. Unfortunately, that help may be ending. Experts at the U.S. National Weather Service reckon that the odds are 4 to 3 that the nation's Northeastern quarter will be colder than normal through January. But for the Western half of the nation, above-normal temperatures are predicted-at the same odds...