Word: coal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second day as French Premier, Felix Gaillard continues to face some disturbing problems. France has been without a government for thirty-six days, during which time pithead coal prices have risen 6.5 per cent, the import tax has risen 20 per cent, and the franc's value has fallen 20 per cent. To combat the falling franc and the rising Algerian, fresh and dynamic leadership is needed. If the following proposals to M. Gaillard are not dynamic, they are, at least, original...
...Germany's postwar prosperity, was clearly being rewarded for providing Adenauer with his best election issue. The coincidental fact that he is Protestant would also restore the Catholic-Protestant balance in the government. As the new Finance Minister, Adenauer named Franz Etzel, hitherto vice chairman of the European Coal and Steel Authority at Luxembourg, who is expected to work with Erhard far more cooperatively than Schäffer ever...
Outside the boundaries of the Lone Star Republic, where high schools and colleges alike recognize the rest of the Union, teen-age football players know no such state loyalty. Raw material from the coal mines of western Pennsylvania is as likely to turn up in Miami or Maryland as it is to be discovered at Pitt. Massillon, Ohio, a perennial producer of champions, sends its graduates all over the Big Ten. West Point's bird dogs have always found fine hunting on the playing fields of Florida; Michigan State Coach Duffy Daugherty collects some of his burliest backs...
Anyone with this turn of mind was potentially a railfan, but there were negative factors to be considered, such as coal dust allergies and love of quiet. And there were still quite a few people around who just didn't like any machines...
Mothers near Geiger Gulch switched their children to orange juice, and scrubbed them all over twice a day. Coal miners' unions worried about the air blown down their mine shafts. The big city of Manchester (pop. some 700,000) worried about its water, which comes from the edge of Geiger Gulch. Beef cattle sent to market from the region were marked with yellow paint so their thyroids would be destroyed right after slaughter. No one has been damaged yet (except the plant worker who was shaved), but all Britain has had a disquieting look at a kind of accident...