Word: coal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the start of the industrial revolution, mankind has been burning fossil fuel (coal, oil, etc.) and adding its carbon to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. In 50 years or so this process, says Director Roger Revelle of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, may have a violent effect on the earth's climate...
...HUGE POWER PLANTS, the biggest coal-fueled generating units ever built, will be built for American Gas & Electric system by General Electric. The company has earmarked $110 million for the two units, to be located in the Midwest. Each one can supply electricity for a city...
Gumshoes in the Bin. At famed Claridge's, a place for princes, maharajas and others who do not count their money, a Red flag hung from the marquee masthead. Detectives had already checked the coal bins for concealed bombs, replaced foreign-born waiters and busboys with a specially screened British floor staff. A squad of 80 uniformed constables jostled the crowd outside, while inside the hotel scores of bowler-hatted Scotland Yard gumshoes threaded their way among tables crowded by Mayfair society. As B. & K. hustled through the side entrance and up the stairway to the 50-room Russian...
...THOUSAND times a day. U.S. jukeboxes moaned out Sixteen Tons, a Tin Pan Alley folk song about a coal miner who is soul-deep in debt to his employer. The song landed with a sixteen-ton impact because of its tootling orchestration and Tennessee Ernie Ford's richly lugubrious style. To the jukebox generation the words were all but meaningless. Yet, as late as the 1920s, the ballad's bitter plaint was a real-life refrain to millions of U.S. workers from Georgia's green-roofed cotton villages to Oregon's bleak lumber settlements. Those workers...
...Which often charged such exorbitant prices that Pennsylvania mineworkers in 1902 accused the coal operators of making profits "not only from mining coal but by mining miners." Many companies fired employees who shopped at independent stores. One of the worst company storekeepers: John D. Rockefeller Jr., whose Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. refused to give miners the right to shop where they chose until after a strike...