Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn into that office. Only three votes were cast against his appointment.
The Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act was signed into law in order to allocate petroleum distribution and control prices. This came about, of course, due to the Arab Oil Embargo.
The effort at price control and allocation would prove to be a failure, as generally such measures prove to be.
The House of Representatives passed a bill to put the US on Daylight Savings Time year around. A similar bill recently passed the Senate, and then went nowhere.
This act passed and went into effect in 1974, and very rapidly it went from being popular to unpopular. I can remember the reason why. As a kid, we now went to school in darkness.
It escapes me why these bills always choose Daylight Savings Time over natural time.
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