Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...journalists who have studied the tense situation in the coal fields of eastern Kentucky agreed last night that the only solution to the problems of that area is a vast program of public works...
Graham explained that T.V.A. holds a virtual monopoly by being the only major purchaser of coal in the area. He contended that when the T.V.A. cuts the price it will pay, "owners cut back on costs and the coal miners are caught in the middle...
Gene S. Graham, a Niemann Fellow who writes for the Nashville Tennesseean and has recently published a Harper's article on the coal-field situation, told a Liberal Union audience that only the building of dams, highways, and power stations will bring in the needed industry to this area...
...attributed much of the present problem there to the pricing policies of the T.V.A., which forces companies to automate in order to supply the Authority with cheap coal...
...water nymph-and his fortress crumbled, the fief he founded proved as durable as it is diminutive. It is formally known today as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and, though international surveys often omit its statistics entirely, it is a thriving charter member of the European Coal and Steel Community and the Common Market, as well as the smallest country in the United Nations, in whose behalf it sent an armed and eager platoon to Korea...