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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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While all the improved devices in Ford's future may eventually reduce the exhaust pollution of internal-combustion engines by 90%, the ultimate solution to the problem could well be a new kind of power source. Ford has already experimented with electric cars and gas-turbine engines for trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Ford's Better Idea | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Mount Storm's air is being fouled by emissions from the smokestacks of two huge coal-burning power plants owned by Virginia Electric and Power Co. Since the plants were fired up in 1966, harvests of Mount Storm's tree farmers have tumbled by as much as 90...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Custer's Last Stand | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

"The place is a disaster area," says University of Montana Botanist Clarence C. Gordon, who was called in with other scientists by the National Air Pollution Control Administration to study the problem. The scientists found that sulphur dioxide in the fumes kills the tips of some trees and causes others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Custer's Last Stand | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Government officials are now looking into the power company's argument that insects-not pollutants-are to blame. Whatever they decide, Virginia Electric and Power does not seem unduly concerned: it is proceeding with the construction of a third Mount Storm plant, scheduled for completion in 1973.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Custer's Last Stand | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

While antiwar students observed the Viet Nam Moratorium for the third time last week, the conservative Young Americans for Freedom staged "Tell It to Hanoi" teach-ins at a number of campuses across the country. Because of war weariness or the distraction of exams, the activists on both sides failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Campus Communiqu | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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