Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain's new government likely to be? While Wilson indulges in some ritualistic patter about Wall Street operators and Ruhr barons, he stresses science more than socialism, efficiency as much as welfare. Besides, a great deal of Britain is socialist for keeps, no matter who is in power. Coal mines, railroads and a segment of steel are nationalized already; the gas and electric industries are run by public corporations, as are airlines, broadcasting, canals and atomic energy...
Long before Poet T. S. Eliot expounded his theory of the "auditory imagination," Pioneer Adman Earnest Elmo Calkins used pocket poetry to make "Phoebe Snow" glamorize passenger service on the coal-burning Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. Slogans nearly always overload the language and often debase it ("cof-fee-er coffee"). English teachers curse Madison Avenue for institutionalizing bad grammar with such calculated lapses as "us Tareyton smokers" and "like a cigarette should." By contrast, some of history's most enduring slogans were plucked from literature. Winston Churchill's call to "blood, sweat and tears"-boiled down from...
...said. "A great day." Actually, for Unitas it was just about par: he has been averaging 15 completions and two TD passes a game ever since he broke into the N.F.L. in 1956. Of course, he almost didn't break in at all. The son of a Pittsburgh coal dealer, he was turned down at Notre Dame and Indiana ("I only weighed 145 then," he explains), finally settled for the University of Louisville. After graduation, the Pittsburgh Steelers gave him a tryout, sent him home. Baltimore found him playing for a Pittsburgh sand-lot team - and signed...
...joint projects and coordinate the transmission, generation and marketing of power. Its first joint project will start shortly, when member companies begin construction of a 750,000-kw. plant near the Arizona-New Mexico-Colorado-Utah boundary known as the four corners. The plant will burn the low-grade coal still buried beneath many a nearby ghost town, but future WEST plants might also use oil, natural gas or, in water-parched Southern California, nuclear reactors that will convert salt water to fresh while they generate electricity. The associates' first president, Dick Walter Reeves, 61, head of the Public...
...Author Arthur Lewis, a onetime newsman who wrote a lively 1963 biography of Millionairess Hetty Green, The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, the story of the Molly Maguires was clearly a labor of love. Lewis comes from Mahanoy City in the heart of the coal fields, where the old wounds are still raw. He notes approvingly that all condemned Molly Maguires died gamely and with style. Two carried red roses to the scaffold. Another joked cheerfully as his hair was cut just before his execution: "Make it good, Al," he told the barber, "or you're liable...