When oil prices spiked during the 1967 Oil Embargo, 1973 oil crisis, and 1979 energy crisis, Alberta's economy boomed.

" The Abadan oil refinery was featured on the reverse side of Iran's 100-rial banknotes printed in 1965 and from 1971 to 1973.

The prolonged worldwide boom, beginning in the late 1940s and lasting until the first oil crisis in 1973, was a challenge that Finland met and from which it emerged with a highly sophisticated and diversified economy, including a new occupational structure.

After 1973, Germany was hard hit by a worldwide economic crisis, soaring oil prices, and stubbornly high unemployment, which jumped from 300, 000 in 1973 to 1. 1 million in 1975.

GDP per capita grew 545 % from 1970 to 1980 as a result of the sudden increase in oil export revenues from 1973 to 1979.

These favorable developments, combined with the presence of a large and cheap labour force, laid the foundation for spectacular economic growth that lasted almost uninterrupted until the " Hot Autumn's " massive strikes and social unrest of 1969-70, which then combined with the later 1973 oil crisis and put an abrupt end to the prolonged boom.

Inflation continued, aggravated by the increases in the price of oil in 1973 and 1979.

Since the oil shocks of the 1970s, Japan has reduced dependence on petroleum as a source of energy from more than 75 % in 1973 to about 57 % at present.

* 1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.

* 1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.

The oil crisis of 1973 and a slump in export revenues put Zambia in a state of economic crisis.

In 1973, the massive increase in the price of oil was followed by a slump in copper prices and a diminution of export earnings.

After the 1973 oil crisis and the subsequent rise in fuel costs, gas turbine locomotives became uneconomical to operate, and many were taken out of service.

Gaddafi played a key role in promoting the use of oil embargoes as a political weapon for challenging the West, hoping that an oil price rise and embargo in 1973 would persuade the West — especially the United States — to end support for Israel.

These policies, coupled with economic pressures stemming from the 1973 oil crisis, resulted in the rapid collapse of Madagascar's economy and a sharp decline in living standards, and the country had become completely bankrupt by 1979.

Mazda's rotary success continued until the onset of the 1973 oil crisis.

Fraser's economic record was marred by rising unemployment, which reached record levels under his administration, caused in part by the ongoing effects of the 1973 oil crisis.

* 1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis.

* 1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis.

* 1973 – OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.

* 1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis ; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term " Stockholm syndrome ".

The 1973 oil crisis, a series of automobile-related regulatory changes enacted during the 1970s and a change of directors at Volkswagen made the case for a Volkswagen sports car less striking and the 425 project was put on hold.

It was not until the 1973 oil crisis that the country saw rapid growth, and GDP per capita soared by 1, 858 % in the 1970s ( although that growth was concentrated with the ruling elite ).

The major exception to this occurred during the 1973 oil crisis when Saudi Arabia, with the other Arab oil states, used an embargo on oil supplies to pressurize the US to stop supporting Israel.

The 1973 international oil crisis caused Switzerland's energy consumption to decrease from 1973 to 1977.

The 1973 oil crisis meant that large displacement special edition homologation cars of all makes were suddenly sitting unsold.

A year later, world oil prices rose dramatically as a result of the 1973 energy crisis, and skyrocketing revenues enabled Saddam to expand his agenda.

However, work was postponed for five years by the " oil shock " of 1973 ; once the Environment Assessment Report was published in 1978, construction got underway.

Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus was originally slated for release in 1973 but following Agnetha's pregnancy that year and later the unexpected success with ABBA it was postponed and not released until late 1975.

A final control plan for the Los Angeles Basin was issued in 1973, and one of its main provisions was a two-phase conversion of of freeway and arterial roadway lanes to bus / carpool lanes and the development of a regional computerized carpool matching system.

The 1973 petroleum crisis inspired Oberth to look into alternative energy sources, including a plan for a wind power station that could utilize the jet stream.

In December 1973 Buzz Goodbody, a promising young director, drew up a plan for what would become The Other Place studio theatre in Stratford, designed by Michael Reardon to seat 140 people, which opened to a first and highly successful season in 1974.

Immediately following the Chilean coup of 1973, Augusto Pinochet was made aware of a confidential economic plan known as El ladrillo ( literally, “ the brick ”), so called because the report was “ as thick as a brick ”.

The plan had been quietly prepared in May 1973 by economists who opposed Salvador Allende ’ s government, with the help from a group of economists the press were calling the Chicago Boys, because they were predominantly alumni of the University of Chicago.

In October 1973, during the Watergate scandal, the Nixon administration proposed the Stennis compromise, wherein the hard-of-hearing Stennis would listen to the contested Oval Office tapes and report on their contents, but this plan went nowhere.

In the fall of 1973, after critical newspaper articles by Lester Kinsolving and the defection of eight Temple members, Jones and Temple member Timothy Stoen prepared an " immediate action " contingency plan for responding to a police or media crackdown.

In 1973, a master plan to restore Borobudur was created.

On January 1, 1973, a plan that Ford had issued in late 1972 took effect, consolidating the departments reporting to him into six program cabinets: Consumer Protection and Regulation, Development, Education and the Arts, Human Resources, Safety and Justice, and Transportation.

The Port embarked on a major expansion plan, designed by The Richardson Associates and lasting from 1967 to 1973, adding a second runway, a parking garage, two satellite terminals, and other improvements.

In 1973 the newly created Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority ( MNAA ) finalized a master plan to coordinate the long term growth of the airport along projected increases in needed passenger capacity.

This plan had developed from early schemes prior to the Second World War through Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 to a 1960s Greater London Council ( GLC ) scheme that would have involved the construction of many miles of motorway standard roads across the city and demolition on a massive scale. Due to the huge construction costs and widespread public opposition, most of the scheme was cancelled in 1973 and the Westway, the West Cross Route and East Cross Route in east London were the only significant parts to be built.

This emerged after the 1973 oil crisis in the " messmer plan " of Gaullist prime minister Pierre Messmer.

Some Hispanic Americans felt they were being discriminated against when they were being put with only African-Americans as part of the desegregation plan, so many took their children out of the schools and put them in huelgas, or protest schools, until a ruling in 1973 satisfied their demands.

A five-year plan released in 1973 focused state investments into agriculture, rural infrastructure and cottage industries.

When their effort to impeach him in February 1973 failed, they met to plan protests and action.

In 1973 Comecon decided to draw up a general plan incorporating these measures.

It discontinued the draft in 1973, moving to an all-volunteer force, however, the Selective Service System remains as a contemporary plan in the event that a draft is needed.

Manganese Bronze absorbed part of BSA in 1973, under chairman Dennis Poore, as part of a rescue plan initiated by the Government.

Most of the SMSU campus was constructed between 1965 and 1973 according to a unified plan.

Ashrawi was finally allowed to re-join her family in 1973 under the family reunification plan.

Ashrawi returned to the West Bank under the family reunification plan in 1973 and established the Department of English at Birzeit University.

Yusuf Dheere, who was well connected and from a noble family, met the Somali president Siad Barre in 1973 after putting the Somali elders behind his plan, and convinced the Somali president to do something about the Ogaden region.

In 1973, the General Services Administration ( GSA ) developed a plan save the Old Post Office Pavilion, and the National Capitol Planning Commission agreed to the project.