Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sounded through the open-ended courtroom in Mwanza, a dusty little Tanzanian town on the shore of Lake Victoria. Solemn in his red robes and white wig, British-born Judge Harold Platt, a member of Tanzania's High Court, stepped up to the bench. Ededem Effiwatt, the ponderous, coal-black prosecutor, made ready to represent the state. And an unarmed African policeman stood guard by the prisoner in the dock. Everywhere he looked, Peace Corpsman Bill Haywood Kinsey, 24, a North Carolinian who had been charged with the murder of his wife, was reminded that he was a stranger...
Despite his general indictment of tree-caused air pollution, Went also had a kind word for the tree's byproduct. Some of the important organic deposits in the earth's crust, such as petroleum and bituminous coal, he says, may well have come from arboreal air pollutants gradually deposited on earth by falling rain and snow...
...Diamonds pour out of the big holes of De Beers near Kimberley. The busy gold mines of the Witwatersrand (Ridge of White Waters) and the Orange Free State turn out 73% of the world's supply. Not far away, in the middle of the great Vaal River coal fields, the government-owned SASOL plant turns coal into oil, the only major product in which South Africa is not self-sufficient; 18 companies are now exploring for oil in Zululand and the Karroo...
Three Kinds of Effort. West Germany has seen three big steel mergers since 1964. Moreover, 31 steel companies have asked the European Coal and Steel Community for permission to form themselves into four competing cartels that would provide joint marketing services, coordinate investment and give specialized roles to different factories. The Community is expected to approve reluctantly in a few months with some firm conditions, one being that the cartels last for a limited time...
...improvements, according to a Coal and Steel Community report leaked last week, the five-year outlook for European steel is poor. European steelmen must modernize to stay in business, but by modernizing they add to overcapacity...