Word: coal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boss Mikhail Pervukhin admitted that scores of economic targets set for 1956 had not been achieved. Then Pervukhin made, for a Soviet leader, a surprising statement: instead of scolding the workers, he blamed the Piatiletka planners. They had placed too much emphasis on oversized industrial complexes, particularly in the coal, steel and chemical industries. Pervukhin promised that industrial targets for 1957 would be lowered by nearly 4% on previous planning, with continued emphasis on heavy industry. More important than the substance of Pervukhin's announcement was the principle involved: the Soviet leaders were scrapping the rigid Five-Year-Plan...
...Supreme Soviet assembled, the state of the Soviet Union was newsworthy but not very happy. The U.S.S.R. annual economic report, while claiming an 11% increase in industrial output, listed some serious deficiencies: capital investment was down 6%, and coal, iron, cement, glass, some machine tools and much farm machinery fell short of set goals. More important, from the viewpoint of the elite, dwelling construction fell short of aims by 30 million sq. ft. The same economic report told of a 20% increase in the 1956 grain harvest, mainly due to heavy plantings in the Siberian "virgin lands...
Family: Married in 1922 to clerical worker. One son is a clerk for the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg, the other a telephone-company technician in Munich...
...with decaying Victorian towns, its countryside a forgotten land of rutted roads, one-room schoolhouses, gnarled and feuding farmers. But in the past few years, even the most remote valleys of the Ohio have been stirring with new life as industry after industry has taken advantage of low-cost, coal-fueled power supplies, cheap land and water, and, most important, an untapped supply of labor...
...Buckhill Bottom, 20 miles from Wheeling, W. Va.; soon afterward it joined forces with Revere Copper & Brass to boost the ante to $304 million. In quick succession the Pennsylvania Railroad spent $4,000,000 building twelve miles of spur track to the plant site, and M. A. Hanna Coal Co. started work on a big new mine to provide coal for Ohio Power Co.'s expanding plant at Cresap, W. Va., which in turn contracted to supply power for the new aluminum works...