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Energy drilling during the past 20 years has been strongly affected by Government price controls and the availability of cheap oil from abroad. The number of rigs in operation peaked in December 1955 at 3,137. But then large oil finds overseas, especially in the Middle East, and price restrictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Booming Times for Driilers | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Rounding out the field is New Yorker Russell Long, 24, son of Sumner , ("Huey") Long, a well-known shipping broker and ocean racer. The blond, blue-eyed Russell was crewing by age seven, but it was not until last year that he skippered a twelve, Turner's old Independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Less Swash in His Buckle | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

The rumors that real estate prices might have peaked received a setback last week, when Pan American World Airways announced that it was selling its octagonal Manhattan tower that looms over Park Avenue for $400 million. Completed in 1963, the 59-story aluminum and stainless steel-sheathed skyscraper leads directly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Manhattan Towers for Sale | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

The oppressive summer weather in most sections of the country was only part of what has become a season of economic distress. Declining consumer price increases in April and May fostered the hope that inflation had peaked and was on the way down. But in June consumer prices jumped back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Long Dry Summer | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

Show me round your snow peaked mountains way down south

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Keeping the Comrades Warm | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

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