Word: charcoaling
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...Mexico City, it was announced that the storm had broken the oil pipeline from Tampico in four places. That meant further gasoline restriction. As people queued up to use Mexico City's crippled bus service (there were already block-long queues for kerosene, charcoal, corn), nervous politicos held their breath, wondered if the storm had dealt the country's groggy economic system a knockout punch...
Mexicans are a durable people. But their living costs have risen 150% in four years. They blamed their rulers. When the government persuaded them to cook with kerosene instead of charcoal, they quipped: "If we cooked with electricity they would find a way of having us queue up for current." In recent weeks there had been riots...
...remains of a forest fire in 1902. But this summer, as Northwest plywood and lumber mills went hungry for logs, Kuhlne wondered if the "old burn" might not still have some good timber in it. He sawed into a charred tree. After 42 years its core, sealed in by charcoal, was still sound. He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around...
...first year he is forced to learn to sit stiffly on his haunches. Other restraints result from the flimsy construction of Japanese houses: when a baby begins to crawl, he is held back lest he butt through the paper walls or burn himself in the charcoal fire...
...been one of the humblest of Cuba's humble pueblo. He began his education (including English) in a U.S.-Quaker missionary school. He made a hungry living as a laborer in the cane fields, on the docks and railroads. He was a jack-of-all-trades: tailor, mechanic, charcoal vender, fruit peddler, and finally an Army stenographer. In the Army he got around, became a staff sergeant with remarkably wide connections. When Gerardo Machado's hated dictatorship rotted away in 1933, Sergeant Batista, then 32, astounded the Western Hemisphere by taking over the Army and the Government...