Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Aleksander Zawadzki, 64, President of Poland, a onetime coal miner who joined the Communist underground in 1923, served the cause with such ardor that Moscow made him a general during World War II, then in 1952 eased him upstairs to become Chairman of the Council of State, a sinecure that relegated him to laying cornerstones and delivering speeches; of cancer; in Warsaw...
...prices in line. U.S. factories are still operating at 83% of capacity, which rules out pressures for price increases from over-demand. Industry has either been able to absorb its costs through higher efficiency, or else-as in the case of the battle for the fuel market among oil, coal and gas -is caught in the kind of competition that produces price cuts. Besides, prosperous consumers tend to trade up to the better models that produce more money for manufacturers and thus reduce the need for price increases...
...cheap and home brew was strong," wrote Historian Lerone Bennett. "Duke Ellington was at the Cotton Club and Satchmo was at the Sunset, God was in heaven and Father Divine was in Harlem." Those were the days of speakeasies with names like Glory Hole and Basement Brownie's Coal Bed, of stompin' at the Savoy and vaudeville at the Apollo, of "rent parties" where guests paid 50? or $1 to help the host pay his rent and got all the food and drink-and sometimes sex-that they could manage. It was the time when Jazz Singer Anita...
...Indian was one of history's great athletes, excelling at football, pentathlon, decathlon, golf, bowling, hockey, lacrosse, swimming, rifle, squash, handball and horsemanship. So when he died in 1953, the Pennsylvania coal town of Mauch Chunk (pop. 5.945), not far from Carlisle, where he went to college, welcomed his corpse with a $10,500 mausoleum, and renamed itself Jim Thorpe, Pa., in his honor. The town fathers figured he would be a great tourist draw. But disillusionment has set in, and John H. Otto, chairman of the County Water and Sewer Authority, is now leading a campaign to change...
...kinds of industrial products are "below world levels" of quality, and that rejects cost $200 million a year. Prague, once called "the Golden City," is a mangy metropolis of sooty streets and faulty plumbing. Everywhere signs warn "Pozor pada omitka" (Beware of falling plaster). Railroads cannot haul all the coal needed for power. "What did we use before candles?" runs a favorite joke. The answer: "Electricity...