Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mining remains perilous. Within hours after the German miners were miraculously saved in Saxony, a coal dust explosion on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu killed more than 400 miners and injured hundreds of others...
Chemical Trickery. This year's Nobel Prize in chemistry was split between Director Karl Ziegler of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim, West Germany, and Professor Giulio Natta of the Polytechnic Institute of Milan, Italy. Both men were among the first to recognize the potentialities of macromolecules-the aggregations of thousands of atoms that play an ever-increasing part in modern chemical industry. Some macromolecules, such as the cellulose molecules in cotton or wood, are formed by nature. Others must be formed by chemical trickery. Drs. Ziegler and Natta developed practical methods by which...
Bonus for Breakthroughs. Productivity is being increased partly by men but mostly by machines. In the past five years, such devices as continuous mining machines, automatic freight yards and automated pipeline networks have increased the productivity of coal miners by 35%, rail workers and oilfield roughnecks...
...bound to gain. Some of the gas will be used to fuel new aluminum and ammonia industries in The Netherlands, and about 15 billion cubic meters will be exported yearly to prop a narrowly unfavorable balance of trade. Gas will also replace the country's meager supply of coal as consumer fuel. As a result of the finds, gas prices for Dutch householders are to be lowered 25% next month...
...Nickels & Dimes. Miles missed its first possibility soon after it was founded in 1905. Finding coal on the campus, Tennessee Coal and Iron eased the school to another site and started a mine. That left Miles with little more than its name, which honors the first bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, the Negro denomination that founded the school. This year the church was able to give Miles only $26,000, or less than one month's payroll. As for the rest, says President Pitts, "all these years Miles has been supported by nickels and dimes from washerwomen...