Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City, two gasoline tank trucks, each loaded with 3,000 gallons, were hijacked within a week. Price gouging by station owners has become distressingly common. Miamians complain of having to pay $1 a gallon or being charged a $2 "service fee" before a station attendant will wait on them. In Chicago, a U.S. Attorney filed suit against Policeman Sam McBride, who moonlights as owner of a gas station. McBride was accused by patrons of trying to dodge price controls by "giving away" gas: six gallons with a bar of soap that the customer had to buy for $6; three...
...important changes in the way that it controls oil prices. First, it lifted controls on the crude that comes from stripper wells-those that produce 10 bbl. or less per day. Stripper prices have since risen from $3 a bbl. to $8.50 or more; at these prices, the owner of a stripper can make a profit from a well that might otherwise be worthless. These wells now account for 13% of U.S. production...
...City's Con Edison. The company also owns a string of 250 gas stations in Eastern Canada, operates wells in Abu Dhabi and Texas, and claims to have posted 1972 sales of $1 billion. Nepco President Edward M. Carey founded the company 38 years ago and remains sole owner...
...world are robots (the ones assigned to homosexuals even lisp). To escape from the security police (whose ray gun, incidentally, is always blowing up on them, the spirit of the CIA being immortal), he disguises himself as one of the robots. This bit becomes especially hilarious when his owner (the admirable Diane Keaton) returns him to the factory in order to have a new and more pleasing head installed. Other hairbreadth escapes employ a recalcitrant flying-belt of the sort first used by James Bond, a wildly inflatable rubber suit and a 200-year-old Volkswagen that starts...
Presiding over this six-night-a-week hound happening is Isadore Hecht, 60, West Flagler's owner. The former tomato grower and banana importer bought the track 20 years ago when it handled just $14 million in bets during a 13-week season. Hecht modernized the plant and produced a greyhound gold mine. In 1972 the track handled $63 million in bets (8% went to management) in a 16-week meeting. Every night Hecht can be found in a posh suite of offices perched at one end of the track. There he can monitor the betting windows...