Word: coal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blue-Water Racer. Ever since he learned to sail as a boy on Cape Cod, Designer Stephens has shown the same loving and calculating care for boats. Son of a prosperous Bronx coal dealer, he completed one year at M.I.T., got jaundice, never went back to college. Instead, he studied ship design so thoroughly by himself that when he was only 19 Marine Architect Drake H. Sparkman asked him to form a partnership. Later, Architect W. Starling Burgess invited Stephens to collaborate on the J-Boat Ranger, the fastest yacht in history,* which defended the America...
...23rd child of an Archibald Patch, Pa. coal miner. Gibbons has long kept his gunbarrel eyes fixed on personal power. He armed himself with courses at the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, organized Chicago schoolteachers, then gravitated to St. Louis to stitch a handful of loose-knit locals into a Gibbons whole. When this was gathered into the Teamster fold, Hoffa and Gibbons formed an alliance under which Hoffa is the muscleman and Gibbons the strategist. "Gibbons," Jimmy once said in undisguised admiration, "there are some men in Detroit who dislike me-but those fellows back there in St. Louis...
...basis of this study, the Iranian government hopes to persuade private enterprise to help finance port installations, mining of coal and chrome, and agricultural projects. "A very conservative guess" of the sum involved for the planning: up to $100 million...
...richest hoards of Western art still in private hands is the collection amassed by Dutch Businessman (coal) Daniel George van Beuningen. In the years of avid collecting before his death three years ago. the man all Rotterdam knew as "D.G." gathered together so many works that he was forced to hang Rembrandt drawings inside cupboard doors. Other artists in the collection included Rubens, Dürer. Michelangelo, Van Ruysdael. Goya. Titian, Van Gogh and Rodin; among the best works were Jan van Eyck's The Three Marias, Bruegel's Tower of Babel. Experts put the value at more...
Then Khrushchev let them have it. Kuibyshev was a wonderful achievement, he repeated, but was it the best way to create electricity? A hydropower station took from seven to ten years to build. But thermal power stations, using natural gas or low-grade coal, could be run up in three years or less. And the "point at issue," cried Nikita, is to win time "in the competition with capitalism, to catch up with and outstrip the United States in the per capita output of the population...