Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home on his Mount Vernon farm, got an unexpected phone call. The caller: President Jimmy Carter, who had been reading TIME and had seen our reference to the Neals' frozen water pipe. The two chatted about the fuel crisis, Neal's 160-acre farm and the weather. It turned out that Neal's pipe had burst and been repaired. He had, in fact, been in the bathtub when his wife called him to the phone. Said Neal last week: "I told Emma that if that ever happened again, she had better tell...
Never before in this century had the nation been so much at the mercy of its weather. Man, animal and machine in many parts of the country were immobilized under a heavy blanket of snow and ice. A dire shortage of natural gas -long predicted and long ignored -forced the closing of hundreds of schools and businesses and drove tens of thousands of people out of their unheated homes...
...some cases only briefly-because of plant shutdowns. Just on the verge of recovering from its sustained pause, the economy has also been buffeted. The growth rate for the first quarter of 1977 has been scaled down half a percentage point, to 5%, because of the bad weather. President Carter's economic package of $31.2 billion, to be spread out over 20 months, has been jeopardized: a large chunk of the tax rebates will be eaten up by an extra $7 billion to $8 billion in fuel bills. On top of this, food costs are soaring as the cold...
...Oregon, forest fires have broken out. "Some say the world will end in fire," wrote Robert Frost, "some say in ice." Last week Americans had their choice of disasters. If that is not enough, they soon may undergo trial by water. When the massive snowdrifts melt in the warming weather, torrential floods are expected to sweep many parts of the country...
...task force composed of experts from various federal departments is now monitoring the day-by-day impact of the weather on the economy. They are trying to determine whether to add to the rebates in Carter's stimulus plan that now total $11.4 billion. Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps thinks that an increase is inevitable. "What the weather tells you," she says, "is that you really have to have a bigger package." The additional amount could range from $2 billion to $5 billion...