Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puttered with twin 18-h.p. outboard motors slung on a ramshackle wood-and-iron pontoon. Behind him flowed the sun-dappled, grey-green Zambezi, where crocodiles, hippos and shoals of saber-toothed tiger-fish eternally wait their prey. There came the sound of a laboring truck engine, and brawny, coal-black Captain Nelson peered down the rutted dirt track from the south as proudly as if Emma, Lady Hamilton were being piped aboard the poop deck. It was another load of passengers for his Freedom Ferry...
...drug to market. Aspirin was a registered trade name, and still is in Germany, though it lost that privileged status in the U.S. in 1917, when the Monsanto Co. began to make it in large quantities. Like nearly all other important chemicals, it is now made synthetically from coal...
...Ponce, prefer night hunting because "it is surer-El Tigre moves at night." Others, like Enrique Martinez, a professional guide from San Jose, have learned a lesson or two. Two years ago Martinez was leading a hunting party that jumped a 250-lb. jaguar at night. He trained his coal miner's head lamp on the animal while one of the hunters took aim and fired. Wounded and enraged, the jaguar leaped-straight...
...hands full keeping things in balance. Rice rations were trimmed last month for the third time in a year, sugar grows increasingly short, meat is a luxury available only to the army and select workers -and then a ration of only three-quarters of a pound per week. Even coal and steel production, of which Hanoi was once so proud, is lagging. And though Ho Chi Minh continues to direct and aid the subversive war against South Viet Nam, for all his bluster he seems nervous about the possibility of stepped-up U.S. support of Saigon...
...money-losing passenger service. This kind of pragmatism, coupled with assistance from the Chesapeake & Ohio that controls the B. & O., has helped to revive the nation's oldest railroad. Since Cornell-trained ('30) Lawyer Langdon became chief in 1961, the B. & O. has chopped coal-haul rates and renovated tunnels to accommodate piggybacks, has begun to eliminate unprofitable less-than-carload business. Last week Langdon also reported that his railroad, which lost $31 million in 1961, bounced back to earn $5,500,000 last year on revenues of $372 million, and this year should double those earnings...