Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Schuman took over the Foreign Minister's post. In 1949, after helping draw up the North Atlantic Treaty blueprint, he signed the historic NATO pact on France's behalf. In 1950, in league with another French Eurocrat, Jean Monnet, he proposed the "Schuman Plan" for the European Coal and Steel Community, which proved to be the forerunner of the six-nation Common Market, and of the Euratom pool for peaceful nuclear resources. In 1954 Schuman lost his only major battle-a drive for an all-European army...
David Fellin, 58, a co-owner of the single-entry mine, was running his operation on two three-man shifts. On Tuesday, Aug. 13, Fellin, Louis Bova, 54, and Henry Throne, 28, who was new to the job, descended 330 ft. into the ground, began loading coal. Then the roof fell in. Bova was separated by rock and debris from Fellin and Throne. He shouted through the rubble that his hip had been hurt. After that, he was heard no more...
...five days, not 14, if only the rescuers had gone properly about their business. In turn, Pennsylvania's Deputy Secretary of Mines Gordon Smith, who directed rescue operations around the clock, leveled a blast at Fellin. "The miners in this operation," said he, "were removing pillars of coal left all these years to support a worked-out mine. Fellin showed he doesn't know all there is to know about mining by getting himself in this predicament." These contentions made even more chilling the sound of another drill as rescue workers tried to reach Louis Bova...
What broke up the uneasy coalition and brought on Norway's first government crisis in a generation was a tragic scandal in the state-run coal mines. In recent years, four disastrous explosions and several lesser accidents have plagued the mines, at a cost of 74 lives. Several weeks ago, an investigating commission charged official negligence. Last week, after four days of angry debate, the two splinter Socialists joined with the opposition in a no-confidence vote. One of the leftists, Finn Gustavsen, explained that the S.P.P. toppled Gerhardsen because "he has no longer any contact with the working...
...Germany; the Japanese have moved heavily into the U.S. West Coast market with cheaper prices than U.S. firms in almost all steel products. At one ridiculous point, the British undersold the Belgians in Belgium-while the Belgians were underselling the British in Britain. Within the gentlemanly European Coal and Steel Community, where competition is supposedly regulated, secret rebates are given, and many steel firms keep two sets of books to hide the fact that they deliver 11,000 tons of steel for the price...