Word: pump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oilmen argue persuasively that they need even richer earnings to finance the heavy costs of stepping up exploration, leasing new oil fields and building refineries-a point that they are emphasizing in a quickly mounted advertising barrage. The Chase Manhattan Bank estimates that by 1985 the industry will pump an awesome $800 billion into such ventures...
...Pump Appointments. Gasoline supplies remained capricious-plentiful in some places, scarce in others. On the 68-mile stretch of highway between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, well-supplied motorists continued to zip along at 70 m.p.h., in violation of the new 55-m.p.h. nationwide speed limit. Elsewhere, station owners, whose gasoline deliveries have been cut, are awash with fuel because customers have so drastically reduced their driving. At Walter Paul's Shell station in McDonough, Ga., just off Interstate 75, sales were running at half last month's rate, even though Paul has two-thirds of last month...
...other hand, long lines were still forming at gas stations in many major cities, prompting some dealers to require their customers to telephone for appointments at the pump. In Oregon, a voluntary gasoline rationing plan began. Motorists with license plates ending in even numbers will buy gasoline on even-numbered dates; those with odd numbers will buy on odd-numbered dates...
...Boss Man Jones. "He's got me in the coffin, but he can't nail me," Ali boasts. "He fights like a woman." Ali clinches with Jones and dances round the ring at his isolated, frontier-style training complex, where he sleeps in a cabin equipped with pump-handle faucets and coal stoves. "Tie him up," Ali laughs. "Waltz with him. That's the way you stall for time...
...factories are still humming, and the popular mood is swinging mercurially from aggravated alarm to sour skepticism. The nation is being swept by rumors of tankers idling at sea to await higher prices before unloading, of refineries bulging with reserve stocks, of price-gouging from dock to gas pump. Forgetting how much their lives have already changed-who would have dared predict a year ago that 68° thermostat settings and gasless Sundays would so quickly become routine?-many Americans are asking not how the nation has managed to avoid the worst but whether there really is any energy shortage...