Word: coal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nirvana Postponed. China's economy continues to suffer from the dislocations created by the great leap forward. The People's Daily recently acknowledged that production of coal, iron and steel is "still unable to meet the demands." Accordingly, in the key provinces of Yunnan and Hupeh, Mao's government early last month reintroduced work norms and extra pay for "overfulfillment of the quota"-devices that had been abandoned in the heady, doctrinaire days of the great leap. This doubtless shocked the ideological zealots who only a few months ago were boasting that the slavery of the people...
Governor A. B. Chandler said yesterday National Guardsmen will move into eastern Kentucky's struck coal fields unless both sides assure him there will be no more violence...
...response of British courage and skill reminiscent of the blitz. More than 200 potholers poured in from nearby towns. A clerk who had been refused time off to help in the rescue quit his job. An R.A.F. mountain rescue unit arrived, followed by crack rescue groups from the National Coal Board and the submarine base at Gosport. Hospitals sent cylinders of oxygen. The rescue workers struggled through the mud and darkness, slithered into waist-high pools. Fifty volunteers were spaced out at intervals in the tunnel to make a hand chain for passing on ropes, food, lamps, oxygen cylinders...
...Coal deposits at El Turbio are estimated at 400 million tons, enough to supply Argentina for two centuries. Frondizi's government coal monopoly has signed a $42 million contract with a French company to triple last year's 250,000-ton output. And prospectors from Argentina's Atomic Energy Commission have found rich uranium deposits...
...remote provinces, where wolves once roamed, 25,000 new settlers have arrived since June 1958 to practice what Frondizi preaches: "The fundamentals for national achievement are petroleum, coal, electricity, heavy chemicals. These mean liberty, democracy, self-determination and well-being...