Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elusive, German businessmen have begun to streamline their often inefficient and haphazard operations. Recession-minded workers are taking pains to increase productivity while cutting down their chronic absenteeism. At the same time, there has been a belated realization that something has to be done about the structure of the coal and steel industries, which have, thanks to unrealistic government subsidies, long overproduced. If inflation can be halted and recession averted, West Germany could emerge from the current crisis with a more mature economy than it has ever...
...honest, Erhard did not care to dirty his hands in the invariable give-and-take of political battle. He expected the voters to follow him out of gratitude, and for a while they did. But politicians seldom survive long on gratitude. When a slowdown in industrial activity frightened the coal miners of North Rhine-Westphalia last July, they deserted the Christian Democrats, demolishing Erhard's reputation as the country's No. 1 Wahllokomotive (vote puller...
...plagued by smog. Though New York and a handful of other communities have started anti-pollution programs in recent years, few begin to compare with the tough program of Los Angeles, which-despite its reputation as smog capital of the U.S.-has kept its air breathable by prohibiting all coal fires, allowing oil burning only five months of the year and early recognition of the need for auto exhaust control devices (which, under federal law, will be mandatory for all '68 models...
Officials of New York City's Air Pollution Control Commission asked utility companies to switch fuel for their furnaces from polluting oil and coal to clean-burning natural gas and ordered the city's eleven belching garbage incinerators turned off. In Manhattan, all sufferers from respiratory ailments, heart diseases or bad colds, as well as children under two years old and the elderly, were advised to avoid the poisonous outside...
...into the air each day, were nowhere to be found. By Thanksgiving, despite the holiday inactivity, New York's pollution reached five times its normal level of noxious carbon monoxide from cars, soot and fly ash from chimneys and potentially deadly sulphur dioxide from soft fuel oil and coal fires...