Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another week, gas stations almost everywhere kept short hours, closed on the weekend or limited sales to a few gallons because supplies were short, by 5% to 20% of 1978 levels. In most states it was enough of a pinch to make gasoline a major topic of concern, but not enough to force Americans to change lifestyles. In California, however, long lines of cars formed at every open pump, as angry and panicky motorists tried to buy every drop available...
...impression of presidential zigzagging. Fielding calls from politicians across the country, they insisted that Carter had not meant to imply that the overall gasoline squeeze was over. In fact, even when U.S. stocks of crude oil inch up to 1978 levels, as expected by July, they will fall short of demand by about...
...outside of California, the vast majority of Americans apparently were making few changes in their travel habits or vacation plans, not even for the Memorial Day weekend, when gasoline supplies will be particularly short. Half a million people, traveling by cars, pickup trucks and garishly decorated vans-more than 200,000 vehicles in all -are expected at the Indianapolis 500 auto race. What will happen if there is not enough gas to get them home? Replied State Police Major Forest Cooper: "We are very concerned...
...reducing exports. Because oil shipments from Iran take about two months to reach the U.S. market, the loss caused by the shutdown during the revolution-about 700,000 bbl. per day-did not affect American consumers until March. The American Petroleum Institute estimates that the U.S. now is short as much as 1 million bbl. of imported oil per day. Iran resumed exports in March, but this oil will not show up in American petroleum markets until late this month, which is why Carter and Schlesinger believe the gasoline crunch will be eased in June. But shortages will continue because...
After graduating from high school in Jacksonville, Randolph went north to the promised land of Harlem, which fell considerably short of expectations. He took odd jobs, attended night school at New York City College, and started reading Karl Marx aloud with the same enthusiasm that he showed for Shakespeare. Feeling that he now had an economic explanation for racial injustice, he joined others on the traditional soapbox to orate, as he put it, on "everything from the French Revolution and the history of slavery, to the rise of the working class. It was one of the great intellectual forums...