Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavy industry of the Ruhr built the machines for two world wars and, in more recent years, fueled the post war recovery of West Germany. The Ruhr's steel furnaces and coal pits, eternally enveloped in a grimy grey haze, are still regarded as the foundation of the country's economy. Yet, almost un noticed, the concentration of new German industry has shifted south from the Ruhr to a bucolic land of rolling hills and medieval towns: the state of Baden-Württemberg, between the Rhine and Lake Constance...
...Ruhr seems unable to break out of its outmoded coal-and steel-based industrial pattern, which is slowly pulling it down. As cheaper oil and natural gas continue to win the battle against coal, an eerie stillness hangs over abandoned mines in parts of the Ruhr. By contrast, Baden-Württemberg is blossoming because it has attracted such modern growth industries as chemicals, electronics and precision mechanics. To lure new industries, the state offers long-range development possibilities, a sunny climate, air that is in sharp contrast with that of the smoky, rainy Ruhr, and excellent transport facilities...
...noise of the traffic on the way to Boston. The other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half." He painted the noise, in hurtling compositions that were apt to bear the names of locomotives or place-names of his native Pennsylvania coal country. Together with his fellow abstract expressionists, he split the Manhattan art world of the early 1950s into two camps. The conservatives damned them because their work not only obliterated the human image but looked slapdash, crude and unfinished. Nonsense, replied the avantgarde; those traits were inevitable if a modern...
...malevolent creation. He sees barracks boredom as proof that God mocks man's aspirations, a daily confirmation of the absurdity of it all. Infuriated by Evans' platitudes, O'Rourke responds by plunging his fist into a stove and slowly squeezing the heat out of a burning coal...
...Down Under. Littlefield and his colleagues never undertake a project unless Utah is certain of a customer as well as a supply. Much of the Navajo coal, for instance, will be sold to large Western utilities. They will operate two steam plants near the mine to generate 1,510,000 kilowatts of electricity for six states. The company's newest thrust upward, however, is Down Under, where Utah and two partners will soon be shipping 4,500,000 tons of iron ore a year from the Mount Goldsworthy mine in western Australia. Utah is also developing six deposits...