Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that house prices have soared from $27,600 in 1972 to $62,900 in May [July 23]. President Carter and Congress may see those figures and slap a "windfall profits" tax on anyone who sells a home. Such a levy would be consistent with the windfall profits tax on oil companies. After all, the homeowner has done nothing to reap that gain-it is a true windfall...
Congress has yielded to the narrow interests on energy issues time and time again." He asked his listeners to lobby their Congressmen to support the windfall profits tax on oil companies...
...giant oil spill menaces the beaches...
...Padre Island, hundreds of vacationers last week swam and basked in the sun. They seemed oblivious to Coast Guardsmen who were positioning floating barriers in the water. But even as the sunbathers relaxed at the expensive resort, which grosses $40 million annually in tourist dollars, peanut-size globs of oil began to wash up on the beach. Others, as big as basketballs, floated just offshore...
Harvard will buy the Gulf Oil gas station and the surrounding lot at the junction of Mass Ave and Harvard St. from the oil company on September...