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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most outlandish and un-American of all?and disturbing to those who believe that growth in energy use is a necessary element in the improvement of society's well-being?conservation, however limited, is beginning to be a hopeful factor in the nation's energy calculations. To what degree the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

He proposes that heat pumps be employed to warm the building in winter, simultaneously making ice that will be stored in huge underground bunkers until sum mer, when it can be used to cool the structures without consuming electricity. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the architectural firm renowned for its skyscrapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

The city man has been working out side, and his feet are cold. He takes off his boots, leans back in his chair, and props up his feet on the Glenwood's footrest. Yeast works in the bread and in the city man's mind. He decides to build a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

The Iran shortfall actually will not register until January, and while it may cause a gasoline shortage early next year, Washington describes heating-oil reserves as being above 1978 levels and higher than the "projected normal stock range." The fact is that less heating oil has been ordered by customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Wood stove manufacturers and importers have not yet been subjected to a windfall-profits tax, but envious oil refiners may begin to lobby for just that any day. At the All Nighter Stove Works, in Glastonbury, Conn., President James Morande says that his three-year-old firm is producing at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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