Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rising to $14,000-still the millennium in most places. To that end, President Megel steers what he calls "a progressive, dynamic course, aimed at closer affiliation with the A.F.L.-C.I.O." As he sees it, "salary is still the unmistakable measurement of the desirability of a job, whether shoveling coal or teaching in a classroom...
...question: Could Fireman Gilbert's coal-car "bed" on the cover of the same issue suggest Mr. Frommer's grisly $5-a-day "amenities" for innocents abroad...
...rally his war-shattered people and to salvage something from the Viet Minh. Two weeks after Diem was installed in Saigon as Premier, the weary and discouraged French sliced Viet Nam in half at the Geneva bargaining table; the Viet Minh took the north with its coal and iron, and Diem was left with the south, including Saigon and the rice-rich Mekong River delta...
...Wales. There were no ambiguities in the mine valley of Nye Sevan's youth; life could be sketched as a charcoal cartoon. In Tredegar, it was lived between the pits and the chapel. The visible enemy was the Tredegar Iron & Coal Co., and the audible heroes were the preachers in the chapels and the orators in the miners' lodges. Nye Bevan grew up in a time when Welsh nonconformity was moving from religion to politics, and Nye moved with the times. He easily shed the Methodist-Baptist faith of his home, because it transformed so easily into political...
...this boy of easy, brilliant talents went into the pits like his father and grandfather before him. That he became a Marxist is not surprising. It was hard not to have hard feelings about the Tredegar Iron & Coal Co. One early strike eloquently led by young Nye was called because the company had docked a miner a day's pay: the idle fellow had taken off part of the working day to convey home the body of a comrade killed working down the pit. So the world was black and white for young Nye Bevan as he became...