Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stairways are slanting. Eaten out of house and home, Democratic Governor Hulett C. Smith, 46, evacuated his wife and five children to his own place in Beckley, 52 miles away, there to await the restoration and to ponder the imbalance of nature that produced overfed termites and underfed coal miners in his domain...
Europe's newly discovered riches of natural gas are creating a major upheaval in the world's fastest growing energy market. Across the Continent, the new gas finds are lighting an investment fever and bringing some chills to a vulnerable competitor, coal. As estimates grow of the size of The Netherlands' mammoth Groningen gas field (widely regarded as twice the official 1.1 trillion cubic meters), and as oilmen probe the bottom of the North Sea for what may be even larger deposits-one big one was hit last week off the West German island of Borkum...
Natural gas has expanded its toehold in Europe's fuel market from 2% to 3½% in the last two years; most experts predict that it will grab at least 10% by 1975, chiefly at the expense of coal's present 47% . Gas's share could grow twice that fast-to 20%-if it is priced low enough. Up to now gas prices have been kept close to those of rival fuels, partly because coal and oil companies own major interests in many gas-distribution combines and partly because so many governments are committed to subsidizing inefficient...
...President Truman appointed him chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board, but he resigned four months later after Truman overruled a decision of the board involving wage increases for coal miners...
...strategists, these are the most tempting targets available. They include the Thai Nguyen pig-iron plant 50 miles north of Hanoi, the superphosphate plant at Lam Tao, the chemical works at VietTri-all built within the past decade through Russian and Chinese aid. Also appealing: the Hon Gai coal mines, Haiphong's port and petroleum facilities and the military air-bases on which recline Ho's recently acquired MIGs...