Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further leverage on Wilson, Kaunda decided to withhold all hardcurrency payments to Rhodesia, due as its share of the jointly owned and operated railway that is Zambia's lifeline for copper exports and coal and consumer-goods imports. By jeopardizing his own economy, Kaunda hopes to put Wilson over a barrel and force him into more decisive action. To calm Kaunda down, last week Wilson sent Judith Hart, the Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations, to Lusaka. When she arrived, only two minor protocol officers were waiting to meet her, and toward week...
...Union split the Center, encouraged Protestant and peasant membership, and in 1949 edged out the older, better organized Socialist Party of Kurt Schumacher to win Germany's first free election in a generation. Then began the adroit maneuvering that brought Germany into NATO and won back the Saar coal and steel complex that France had taken. In 1953, he made his first trip to the U.S. and stood at attention in Arlington Cemetery while an American military band played Deutschland fiber Alles...
...sheltered topography as Los Angeles, New York City would be uninhabitable." The biggest offender is the city government itself, whose eleven garbage incinerators alone spew forth some 39 tons of filth daily. The local utility, Consolidated Edison, is another major contributor, last year burned 10 billion Ibs. of soft coal and more than 800 million gals, of oil inside city limits...
Died. Walter J. Tuohy, 65, a merger master of U.S. railroading, who, as president of the Chesapeake & Ohio, proved for all time that two-or even three can live more cheaply than one, in 1963 paired his successful coal-hauling C. & O. with the deficit-ridden Baltimore & Ohio, thus producing a $65 million combined annual profit within two years, and this year (pending ICC approval) adding the Norfolk & Western line to build a network that in track (26,460 miles from Maine to Nebraska) and annual revenues ($1.82 billion) would rank as the nation's second biggest, next...
About 2:30 the next morning, Sylvia, by then in what officials described as a state of "profound apathy," made what was apparently her only effort to get help. Using a coal shovel, she scraped on the basement floor for almost two hours. A woman next door was awakened and on the verge of calling police when the scraping stopped. That afternoon, as Sylvia lay moaning and mumbling incoherently on her pile of rags, Mrs. Baniszewski, Ricky, John B. Jr. and Paula sprinkled a box of soap powder on her, then added hot water. Afterward, John Jr. sprayed her with...