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Several church groups have asked Continental Oil and Kennecott Copper to issue detailed reports on their strip-mining activities in Appalachia and in the American northern plains...
Alan and Zeb Feldman. Peter Johnson's concert series this week features "traditional music from Appalachia, Ireland, Brittany, Turkey and the Balkans." Harvard should have as good an Affirmative Action plan. Saturday, March 2, at St. Paul's School, Mt. Auburn St., 8 p.m., $2, free refreshments and party afterwards...
United States Steel 16.3 Appalachia Bethlehem Steel 13.3 Appalachia Eastern Associated Eastern Gas & Fuel 12.5 Appalachia Coal North American Coal 12 Appalachia Old Ben Coal Standard Oil of Ohio 11.2 Appalachia...
...solve the problems, the coal companies have had to put a new emphasis on mechanization and strip mining. Using giant shovels, the companies can peel back the earth and gouge out the underlying coal with a minimum of workers and a maximum of productivity. Stripping, mainly in Appalachia, now accounts for about half of all U.S. coal production, and the proportion is likely to rise. All the major companies have lately bought or leased rights to hundreds of millions of tons of coal that lie close under the plains of the Dakotas and Montana, the semidesert of New Mexico...
Consolidation Coal Continental Oil 64.9 Appalachia, Midwest Island Creek Coal Occidental Petroleum 22.6 Appalachia Clinchfield Coal Pittston 20.6 Appalachia Amax Coal American Metal Climax...