Word: coal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself from being eaten, the Middle African man-in-the-bush was for the most part unaware of the rich potential of the land beneath his feet. There, waiting to be found by the white man, were some of the earth's greatest stores of precious gems, iron, coal, gold, tin, copper and tungsten for the dawning age of electricity, pitchblende from which the minerals of the atomic age would one day be refined, and scores of other metals...
SHIPPING RATES are dropping as demand caused by Suez stoppage tapers off and new ships go into service. Freighter tolls for coal from East Coast to Europe are at 18-month low of $7.42 a ton v. $9.52 in March and record $16.52 in December...
...unit. An outgrowth of existing West European agreements, the Common Market Treaty plans to eliminate all tariff walls and erect a common rate among its signing nations. To further this common economic endeavor, a second treaty, "Euratom," will set about overhauling Europe's industrial power, replacing by 1967 present coal and oil energy with 15 million kilowatts of unclear power. While the Common Market Treaty will produce tensions and stresses when attempted (Germans are already complaining about their disproportionate contribution to proposed French West African development), Euratom is the more ambitious of the two projects...
...direct-reduction method will be worked out in a year or so, and then one of the major companies may take the plunge and build a big plant. The first one would probably be built in the South or West, where the absence or high cost of coking coal now prevents building of blast furnaces. Meanwhile oldtimers are certain that existing blast furnaces will continue to operate for a long time, and that ways will be found to increase their efficiency. On the prospects for a changeover to direct reduction, a U.S. Steel Co. executive said: "I look for evolutionary...
...lifted. British exports to China, worth $30 million last year (less than 1% of Britain's total exports), would probably double. Japanese exports to China, worth $24 million in this year's first quarter, have about reached the limit unless Peking can ship more and better coal and iron ore to Japan. West Germany, already straining to meet other foreign orders, could not send much more than last year's $37 million in goods to China without reducing exports to the West...