Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shocked; all of us must be sleeping. In "Lighting Up With Coal" [Jan. 20], it is reported that the Mohave Power Project will "gobble up the equivalent of two 100-car trains of coal each day when its giant furnaces begin operating...
...next three years, our air will certainly become more and more polluted, even with everyone stressing the importance of cleaning it up. How can we be so blind as to let a future project pollute our air at the startling rate of two 100-car trains of coal...
...copper producers, turned a first-half slump resulting from strikes in Chile into a booming year with profits up 22%, to $125 million. Thanks to heavy Pentagon orders and higher prices abroad, Kennecott is well polished for its upcoming $466 million merger with another profitmaker, St. Louis' Peabody Coal Co., second largest in the U.S. - The Pennsylvania Railroad, biggest in the U.S., highballed through 1966 to consolidated earnings of $90 million for a 29% gain over 1965. Yet the Pennsy finished behind the Norfolk & Western, which Pennsy Chairman Stuart Saunders once headed and now blames for delaying the Penn...
...alone, according to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Air pollutants abrade, corrode, tarnish, soil, erode, crack, weaken and discolor materials of all varieties. Steel corrodes from two to four times as fast in urban and indus trial regions as in rural areas, where much less sulphur-bearing coal and oil are burned. The erosion of some stone statuary and buildings is also greatly speeded by high concentrations of sulphur oxides...
...city has launched a campaign to force local steel plants to adopt costly antipollution techniques, and transportation officials are investigating combination diesel-electric buses that would reduce ex haust fumes. An Illinois legislator has gone so far as to introduce a bill that would limit the use of Illinois coal-which has a high sulphur content-in public buildings...