Word: coal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Imports Invited. In Newcastle, England, the Montague colliery, last operating coal mine in the city, announced that its veins are running out and it will soon have to shut down...
...Creation of Peace. The nation that Mao had seized was devastated by twelve years of war and revolution, and it was cursed with a primitive economy-though not so primitive as China's present masters like to pretend. Mao inherited from the Japanese a major coal and steel complex in Manchuria and from the Nationalists considerable light industry as well as the Yumen oilfield-still China's biggest. Under Nationalist rule China's industrial production had risen 80% between 1933 and 1945. By the time Mao appeared, the stage was set for a Chinese industrial revolution comparable...
...crisis' root was Argentina's oil problem. With coal supplies meager and hydroelectric sources remote, the nation runs on oil; it burns 250,000 bbl. a day to power factories, move trains, heat homes, cook food. An estimated 2.3 billion-bbl. oil reserve lies underground, but the government oil monopoly, Y.P.F., has only enough resources to produce 35% of the country's requirements. Dollar-short Argentina spent more than $300 million last year to import the rest. Frondizi saw only one solution. Risking the wrath of nationalistic Peronistas (and nationalists in his own Radical Party), he negotiated...
...staff officer groaned in despair: "This is simply nothing but a fraud-an infamous fraud." It would have been, without Admiral Rozhestvensky, a towering, bearded figure who bellowed crews into submission, fired live ammunition at ships slow in answering signals, bullied Hamburg-Amerika colliers into following the fleet to coal...
...point early in the second quarter, play descended to the grammar-school level, with both teams fumbling the ball around as if it were a live coal. The Crimson had made no first downs (and almost no yardage) in its first five offensive sorties, and general consternation was mounting in the Harvard stands, when suddenly Ravenel shifted his attack into high gear...