Word: bowen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indiana, special units of the state police patrolled key intersections along highways used by coal trucks. Governor Otis Bowen assigned 350 National Guard troops to protect coal being hauled from a Public Service Indiana power plant near Evansville to another at Terre Haute, and 250 more to perform similar duty along an intentionally undisclosed coal route. Other states in the region assigned their police forces to protect coal shipments. Moreover, the Coast Guard patrolled a 42-mile "safety zone" along the Ohio River from the Cannelton Locks to Newburgh, Ind., where much of the nonunion coal was barged...
Indiana Governor Otis Bowen became the first to declare a state of emergency. He assigned the National Guard to escort trucks carrying coal. The Indiana public service commission proposed a contingency plan for reducing power when utility coal supplies get down to an emergency level...
...Bowen Matthews Wilmington...
...books have outlasted other possessions. The Death of the Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day (1949) are the novels for which she was best known, but Glendinning offers useful glosses on others as well. With varying success, Bowen constantly attacked a single problem: the effect of innocence on a world that was not ready to cope with it. "There is no doubt," she wrote in 1932, "that angels rush in before fools." She amplified this view on another occasion: "No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that...
Elizabeth Bowen has its flaws. But she does not fall into the trap of equating importance with length. If dropped, her book will not break the reader's foot. Ultimately, the biography does what it is supposed to do: it rekindles interest in the writer and in her works...