Word: coal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coal fields of 100 million tons were found far inland near Colomb-Béchar, are already producing 350,000 tons a year...
Meany and his council took pains to prove that they were after Beck and not his union, the nation's biggest. One day later they filled Dave's vacant chair with another Teamster, General Secretary-Treasurer John English, 68, a onetime coal-wagon driver who has been a Teamster 52 years, has never liked Latecomer Beck. Promised tall, dour John English: "We are going to wash our own dirty linen." The A.F.L.-C.I.O. believed him. To allow time for the scrubbing to begin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee postponed indefinitely its scheduled investigation of the union that...
...expenditure is measured by the rate of calorie consumption, a distance runner or skier can burn up 26.5 calories per minute; healthy young men at amateur sports can work up to a fuel consumption of 18 calories per minute. The heaviest rates for steady work have been reported for coal miners as ranging from 4.3 to 5 calories per minute...
...local show, Hometown Jamboree, and made some records (Mule Train, Shotgun Boogie) that led to a guest appearance in Las Vegas. "I was scared to death to play before an audience of sophisticates and gamblers." In 1955, with his driving, metronome sense of rhythm, he recorded a coal miner's bitter lament called Sixteen Tons ("Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company sto' "). Aided by some ingenious orchestration, it shot to the top of the nation's bestseller lists as fast...
...property holders. Though it is committed to free enterprise, it controls 314 German industrial companies worth well over $1 billion, which it inherited from the Kaisers and the Nazis. These control 90% of the nation's lignite mining, 50% of its. iron-ore mining, 20% of its hard-coal mining plus much of its production of aluminum (70%), lead (42%), zinc (28%), oil (18%) and steel (5%). The state also controls 100% of the German railway (total employment: 500,000) and telegraph systems...