Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies and coal producers (many of the same corporations) began to realize that America's continued industrial development was going to run up against hard times in eastern labor-intensive underground coal mines--where almost 400 years' worth of coal remains. Instead, companies looked eagerly towards the "Great American Coal Basin"--the western United States. There the coal lies close to the surface and high production with minimal labor costs is the name of the game...
...North American Coal Company is the second largest independent (not owned by oil companies) mining company in the United States, a leader in eastern underground coal mines," Crocker continues." So the company began looking for a way to get into western coal land, talking to the United Power Association and the Cooperative Power Association, two small utilities based in Minnesota. An agreement was made--the North American Coal Company would produce the coal and the utilities would transport and distribute the electricity...
Thompson continues: "Falkirk Mining Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the North American Coal Company. The project was set up in such a way as to enable Falkirk to benefit from large, low-interest loans which Cooperative Power and United Power were able to obtain from the Rural Electrification Administration. The contract between Falkirk, United Power, and Cooperative Power is set up in such a way that the more Falkirk's cost of production increases, the more money they receive. The cost of the project has already increased from $536 million to $1.2 billion, and the electricity it produces...
...David S. Rosenthal '59, associate professor of Medicine, and Dr. Richard S. Neiman '59, associate professor at the Mallory Institute of Pathology, will teach a workshop on bone marrow deseases at meetings of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists and the College of American Pathologists this fall...
...American Society of Pathology, which has held semi-annual conventions for 30 years, offers the largest continuing educational program of any medical society in the world, Dr. George F. Stevenson, scientific director of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, said yesterday. Nationwide, nearly 1000 volunteer faculty members will attend the convention, along with 8000 physicians...