Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coal industry. American energy needs will require a doubling of coal production by 1980. The coal industry, which has undergone a longterm decline since the disappearance of the steam locomotive, will have to expand at an unprecedented rate to meet the nation's energy requirements. Electric generators that presently burn oil will have to switch to coal, and coal gasification plants will begin to replace diminishing natural gas reserves in the late 1970's. Despite the impending boom, the coal industry can still be considered a "sick industry" whose symptoms are a very high incidence of wildcat strikes and absenteeism...
...most profligate of energy users, Americans burn one-third of the world's oil-or more than 16 million bbl. a day. Much of that precious petroleum is wasted, guzzled up in two-ton cars that carry one person to the office, or burned up in poorly insulated houses that are overheated in winter, overcooled in summer and overlit year round. All the talk notwithstanding, Americans have not yet begun to conserve. As soon as last winter's oil embargo started leaking and the gasoline lines began shrinking, people quickly stepped on the gas and turned...
...anyone beating us. You look around and I don't know how good they are but I know how good we are. And I know that nobody could be as good or as well-trained or as superbly coached. There's no doubt in my mind that we'll burn everyone...
Officials moved quickly to burn or bury masses of bloated, mud-caked bodies, but the stench of death was everywhere. A broiling sun soon beat down on the havoc. Stranded children suffered from exposure and sunstroke. One family was rescued after spending four days holding on to high-tension wires just a few feet above the flood waters. At least a dozen people were treated for spider or snake bites after tarantulas and fer-de-lances fled their hiding places in flooded banana groves. An estimated 100,000 people have been left homeless by the hurricane...
Died. Joseph Anthony Beirne, 63, president of the 500,000-member Communications Workers of America from its founding in 1947 until last June; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. When he was 18, Beirne (pronounced Burn) went to work as a telephone repairman earning 320 an hour; in 1937 he became president of a local affiliate of the National Federation of Telephone Workers; six years later he headed the N.F.T.W., and helped transform it into the C.W.A...