Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unleaded grades has grown dramatically, as federal antipollution laws have forced U.S. automakers to shift to production of cars unsuited for leaded fuels. Lead hampers the functioning of so-called catalytic converters, which remove pollutants like nitrous oxide from auto exhausts. Surging demand for unleaded fuel has driven Shell Oil Co., the nation's largest gasoline retailer, and Amoco Oil Co., the leading producer of unleaded gas, to begin limiting deliveries to dealers. Mobil and other companies are also hard pressed to meet demand...
...Shell insists that its shortages are temporary and have been unexpectedly aggravated by the breakdown of a refinery at Norco, La., for 13 days in November. The plant shut just as another Shell complex, at Wood River, Ill., was temporarily closed for routine maintenance. The double trouble cut Shell's output...
...minutes of the murders, White and his wife walked into a police station four blocks from city hall. It was, ironically, a station out of which White had once worked as a patrolman. He turned in a five-shot, snub-nosed Smith & Wesson Chiefs Special Revolver, nine expended shell casings and eight unexpended rounds of hollow-point ammunition. He spent some 90 minutes under questioning by homicide detectives, then was taken to an upstairs jail and booked. After visiting him there, Mrs. White left weeping...
...These fire faster and more accurately than the Sheridans and carry the latest night-fighting devices. U.S. antitank capability has been bolstered by ten helicopter companies, each with 21 new Cobras, armed with the TOW missile. U.S. ground forces are receiving extra field guns and a new multipurpose artillery shell that combines a large explosive force with armor-piercing ability...
...sign that the awareness industry is at last showing its real self. The occasion was contrived by Jerry Rubin, the reformed Yippie who has decided at 40 that his calling is consciousness. The program, whose co-impresario is Rubin's wife Mimi Leonard, offers to those willing to shell out $32 to $60 per ticket not merely the galaxy of stars (Dick Gregory and Buckminster Fuller too) but the promise that all participants will learn, during the 14½-hour much-ado, "everything you will ever need to know about how to be healthy and loving...