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Re: documenting 9/11/01



There were reports of gas as high as $6.00 a gallon in this part of Ohio.
The state Attorney General is vowing prosectuion. The price has settled
around $1.80 to $1.90 a gallon, up 25 to 40 cents.

Best wishes,

Thomas Berry, Archivist
Historical Construction Equipment Association
16623 Liberty Hi Road
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
Phone 419-352-5616
Fax 419-352-6086
tberry@hcea.net
http://www.hcea.net



----- Original Message -----
From: "Wood, Thomas" <Wood.Thomas@UIS.EDU>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: documenting 9/11/01


> The last point you made -- the concentration of people -- is related to
what
> I suspect will be one of the permanent effects of this numbing tragedy. In
> future, I doubt if any more vast office complexes like the Pentagon or
huge
> office towers will be constructed for security reasons. With modern
> technology, there's little economic justification for such complexes
anyhow.
> So, I doubt another World Trade Center will ever be built.
>
> Have their been gas panics in places other than here? Last night the gas
> stations jacked up their prices to $1.99/gal and some even to $2.75.
People
> were lining up at the cheaper stations and finally ran many of them dry.
> Supposedly in Peoria prices were as high as $3.00. But this morning the
> price was still $1.99 and the panic was gone.
>
> Thomas J. Wood
> Archivist
> Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
> University of Illinois at Springfield
> P.O. Box 19243
> Springfield IL 62794-9243
> 217-206-6520 | wood@uis.edu | http://www.uis.edu/library/lib-arch
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patricia Galloway [mailto:galloway@GSLIS.UTEXAS.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:35 AM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: documenting 9/11/01
>
>
> I investigated what happened to records when the WTC was bombed before,
> and it turned out that most of the electronic records of larger
> businesses in the towers were properly backed up offsite and only the
> day's work was lost. Most of the larger ones, in addition, had records
> management plans in place and had only current paper records on file.
> The sad thing to note is that though we are doing a better job in
> backing up and saving the records, we still dangerously and in some
> respects needlessly concentrate the people.
>
> Pat Galloway
> GSLIS
> University of Texas-Austin
>
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