Word: coal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also, along with coal mining, firefighting is the most dangerous occupation in the country. The danger and the long night shifts tend to put a strain on home life. Although the men say that firefighters do not have an abnormally high divorce rate and that their wives support their choice of jobs, their wives do spend many long worrisome nights when their husbands are on duty...
...crawler bulldozer was stolen from a Chicago-area dealer and hauled away on a weekend, when this kind of equipment is forbidden on the highways. A full 13½ ft- wide, the machine is worth $130,000. It was later traced through Indiana and finally disappeared forever in the coal-mining area of Kentucky...
...life and warmth, and still does so today. The idols are gone, but a growing group of scientists and environmentally concerned solar enthusiasts dreams of discovering an easy, efficient and economical method of harnessing the sun's clean energy to supplement increasingly costly and chancy fuels like oil, coal and natural...
During the past few months, Strauss has used the telephone on his large French-provincial desk (adorned with a plaque asserting IT CAN BE DONE) to carry out many presidential missions. He has helped in pressuring coal companies to accept union demands during the recent miners' strike, promoting approval of the first Panama Canal treaty and persuading Senators to clear the nomination of G. William Miller as Federal Reserve chairman. The day after the committee swung behind Miller, Strauss told him: "Mondale and I worked that Banking Committee from A to Z yesterday. Now you can go to work...
...Bosworth has also become an effective jaw-boner. Two weeks ago. he masterminded the Administration's successful effort to prevent the nation's steelmakers from following U.S. Steel in its attempt to raise prices far beyond what would have been justified by the settlement won by striking coal miners. His tactic-phoning U.S. Steel's competitors and persuading them to announce smaller increases-forced U.S. Steel to roll back its own hike. Bosworth's 20 COWPS officials have now begun gathering cost data to give the council a clear picture of just how much prices...