Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Melvoin watched as motorists pleaded, cajoled and, not infrequently, remained civil while Harrington tried to equitably apportion his meager supply of gasoline. Concluded Melvoin: "A gas-station owner is just another confused citizen, trying to get a handle on what's going...
...cassettes, sometimes watched a small TV set installed in their cars. Some chatted with other motorists or bought food and drink from enterprising kids working the lines. But growing anger and frustration all too often erupted in name calling, fistfights, occasional stabbings and shootings. While a gas-station owner in Freemansburg, Pa., rushed to help his bleeding wife, who had been accidentally struck by a car waiting in line, other motorists filled up their tanks and drove off without paying. In Levittown, Pa., in an outbreak originally caused by truckers demonstrating against high diesel fuel prices, some 2,000 motorists...
...Carter Administration has eased some of the cumbersome federal regulations that discriminate against independent truckers. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission increased from 6% to 7% the surcharge it requires trucking firms to pay the owner-operators they hire. The Government urged states to allow heavier loads so that the truckers can make more money. Vice President Walter Mondale made a plea to the strikers to "get this country moving again." Scoffed Mike Parkhurst, president of the ITA: "Tomorrow the ice is going to trot out another little carrot on the end of a stick. It will still be unacceptable...
...Owner Ojjeh apparently turned a handsome profit on the sale. He bought the collection from the Wildenstein family two years ago reportedly for $7 million. At the time, he said he wanted the antiques to furnish luxury salons aboard the liner France, which he had bought with the intention at first of turning the mothballed superliner into a floating casino. Last week Ojjeh also sold the France, for $18 million, to Norwegian Shipowner Knut Kloster, who will rechristen the ship Norway and use it for Caribbean cruises...
...prospect of overheated patrons hardly heartens restaurant, movie-house and theater managers. "My customers have been coming to the restaurant to get out of the hot kitchen," says Harry Klingeman, owner of The Indian Trail restaurant in Winnetka, Ill. "They are purchasing comfort." Karl Goedereis, manager of the expensive Houston restaurant Charley's 517, has a different kind of worry. "We'll have to let people in with T shirts," he sighs. "The class of the restaurant will go down...