Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complex is the sales office and call board, department store, barbershop, lounge and restaurant. The food is steam-table cuisine, but it is cheap and plentiful. A hungry man can heap his tray with chicken-fried steak, creamed potatoes, green beans, corn bread, salad and homemade pie for less than $4.50. One trucker is celebrated for ordering seven scoops of mashed potatoes at 350 a scoop...
Extended heavy demand for steam heat because of the cold spell has forced B & G to "cycle" heating in some part of the University, cutting down steam in some buildings and shifting it to others periodically, Joyce said...
...have just so much steam available from Cambridge Steam Corporation," he said...
Robert S. Mullen, director of purchasing and insurance, said yesterday the cost of No. 6 low-sulfur residual heavy oil--which Harvard uses in its Medical School power plant and Cambridge Steam also uses--has climbed over 30 per cent since last June, from an average posted price of about $13.60 a barrel last July to $17.82 today...
Goodwin said that under a "fuel clause" in Harvard's contract with Cambridge Steam, the utility company can pass rises in fuel costs on to the consumer. He said that fuel makes up about 70 per cent of Harvard's steam bill, and thus the rise in heavy oil prices "significantly" affects the cost of steam as well...