Energy and the Elderly: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Housing and Consumer Interests of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, September 26, 1978U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 280 lappuses |
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