Word: pumping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Association. Geographically Brumley Gap is a chip in the rim of a natural cup shaped by the South Virginia Hills. APCO is the Appalachian Power Company, which wants to put a 200-foot-high dam in the notch, turning the bowl into a reservoir for the largest pump-storage facility in the U.S. and putting the old homesteads of nearly all Brumley Gap's 119 families under water. The hope of finding Indian graves and getting the whole area protected from APCO by having it registered as a National Historic Place is just one of several desperate ways...
...trucker's heaven yet invented. In it, tired truckers by the hundreds can fill up their 150-gal. tanks, take saunas, wash their clothes, grab a few hours of shuteye, get a quick clutch overhaul and eat their fill. The place has 24 computerized fueling stations that can pump 3 million gal. of gas a month...
...buys 85% of Mexico's oil exports). Schlesinger estimates that by 1985 Mexican wells will be able to match Iran's pre-crisis output of 6 million bbl. per day. The CIA is even more bullish. Its experts forecast that in ten years, Mexico could pump 10 million bbl. per day, which is slightly more than Saudi Arabia's current production. But López Portillo probably will not budge on Mexico's plans to increase production more slowly, to 2.25 million bbl. per day by 1980, including 1.1 million bbl. for-export. (Present...
There is no bathroom. A funnel in the semiprivate stairwell up front is supposed to serve the truly desperate. Thank God, rest stops are frequent. There is a tape deck, though, with speakers fore and aft. As we pull out, the Beatles pump out Here Comes the Sun. And supper starts as some kind of spontaneous combustion. "I've got organic carrots," says Linden, rummaging in a satchel. Before you know it, dates, French bread, salami and a bottle of Mr. Wente's best Grey Riesling are passing from hand to hand. Monksee announces that he will...
Junior Larry Zigerelli handles the point guard chores in Glenn Fine-like style, while Dick Shea and Frank Maturo pump in baskets from all over the floor, averaging 15 points apiece each game...