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...effect, additional conservation steps will be necessary. The Administration could, for example, ask Congress to impose a 10% tax on gasoline. That might reduce demand and allow refineries to shift some production from gasoline to heating oil. If the situation becomes dire, the Administration might even have to ration gasoline and diesel fuel at the consumer level. That step would be taken only with great reluctance. Says Love: "If there's any way to avoid end-use rationing, it should be used. Nothing would intrude more into people's lives...
...delivery. The McDonough Power Equipment Co., which makes lawnmowers and garden equipment, fears that the new plant it will open next spring will not be able to operate at capacity because it will not be able to get enough steel. In San Francisco, Levi Strauss & Co. is having to ration blue jeans to stores because of a scarcity of denim. In Los Angeles, American Chemical Corp. is having trouble getting enough raw materials to make plastic steering wheels, garden hoses and bottles. Capitol Records is trying to eke out supplies of vinyl by recycling old pressings...
...turned out, close to 300 other college-age people also showed up. None of us were interviewed and all of us were given the job. I later learned that the mass hirings were necessitated by a New York State Court order that Willowbrook increase its patient-staff ration to nine...
Race relations on the picket line were one indicator. For the most part, blacks walked with blacks and whites with whites. Until recently, the union's black-white ration was about 60-40. But in the last year, a large influx of Arabs into the assembly plants has changed the importance of this ration...
...race horse knows a day he is to run because his usual ration of hay disappears. Many animals become edgy, difficult to handle. Secretariat is so calm that just before the Derby he lay down for a refreshing 90-minute snooze. He did the same thing just before the Preakness. A TV crew does not faze him. Recently, while a handler was being interviewed, Secretariat calmly began to nibble on the microphone on the off chance that it was edible. Once, while the horse was being led to stable by Groom Ed Sweat, the leather strap broke off in Sweat...