Word: coal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year the combination of Russian machinery and Chinese toil had boosted China's steel production from a prewar peak of 1,800,000 tons to 5,350,000 tons, raised coal production from the Nationalist record of 62 million tons to 130 million tons. And this, according to Peking, is only prelude. Hailing 1958 as the year of "the great leap forward," the Chinese Reds took as their primary slogan: "Overtake Britain in production in 15 years." and after revising production targets ever upward, claimed that by the end of this year China would have produced 10.7 million...
...last week,there were nearly 25,000 communes; their membership, at least on paper, comprised more than 90% of China's peasantry. The movement is now spreading to the cities. At Yangchuan coal mine in Shansi province, where more than 28,000 miners and their families formerly lived in "an unorganized, undisciplined manner." i.e., scattered around as they chose, workers have now been assigned to living quarters according to their work areas and shifts; according to Peking's People's Daily, "the head of a mine pit is simultaneously company commander of the militia and head...
...current statistics are questionable, its basic economic assumptions are even more so. That cottage industry can ever play a major role in transforming China into a modern industrial state is doubtful. As Peking has begun to admit, many of the mud-brick blast furnaces are vastly wasteful of coal and are located too far from major industrial centers to be of much value. And the rosy agricultural future that Mao promises does not take into account the possibility of repeated bad harvests ("Weather no longer counts in China"), or the fact that there is presumably a finite limit...
...small farmer in Franconia, Julius Doepfner early earned a reputation as a godly activist-as likely to show up in a refugee camp or a coal mine as in his pulpit. At Würzburg he gave special attention to refugees and young people, salted church dogma with sport talk, made church land available for housing projects, started a Catholic daily...
...among themselves since 1956, and the Lackawanna and the Erie got permission from the ICC in July to coordinate some facilities and operations in New York State. With the Erie and Lackawanna operating in the red and the more financially stable Delaware & Hudson hard hit by losses on a coal subsidiary, the proposal would combine three fairly weak roads into a network with assets of $952 million and 5,377 miles of main track in seven states, some of which could be eliminated in a merged line...