Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prices are rising for a wide variety of reasons: threadbare supplies, bad weather, questionable Government policy and heavy foreign demand. In addition to the shortage of natural fibers, a scarcity of synthetics looms. The oil shortage is tightening the supply of petrochemicals, which are used in many man-made fabrics...
...change in weather has come with the suddeness of a thunderstorm, whipping thick gusts of rain into the trees. The leaves that seemed to stay up there forever are finally beginning to fall...
Still, a lot depends upon the weather this winter--and Eckstein's computer can't forecast that. The wooly caterpillar--perhaps the most accurate weather forecaster in recent years--is said to have had especially thick rings this year, indicating a reversal in the warming trend of the past few winters. If the caterpillar is right, the nation could face very serious fuel problems in coming months...
...companies are also required to retain a three day supply of the low sulfur fuel for emergency use in the event of dangerous pollution levels caused by adverse weather conditions...
IRONICALLY--EVEN IF this winter produces the expected heavy snowfalls--it could be one of the most disasterous and harrowing winters which ski areas have yet encountered. This year they must deal with another problem which could even be worse than the weather has been in the past: The energy shortage may be a saving grace for President Nixon, but it has already put ski resort operators in a state of panic. They recognize that even though Nixon made no mention of fuel cutbacks to the ski industry in either of his two energy messages, they may be among...