Word: coal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bottom in Knoxville, Tenn., I never knew how deprived I was to have to sleep in the same room with my two brothers, mother and grandmother until sociologists and urbanologists informed me later. I didn't realize it was primitive to have to heat water on a coal stove for my Saturday night bath and to have to use the back-porch toilet until I was grown. Yet I feel lucky when I see many of today's youngsters leave their modern, publicly financed housing projects not realizing what respect, love, compassion or soap and water...
...relief (meaning approval of higher rates) endangers their ability to raise the $250 billion to $300 billion of new construction capital required in the next ten years. Also, the utilities foresee a fuel shortage. Meeting the nation's power needs, says the NERC, would require more than doubling coal output, to 1.3 billion tons by 1986. The utilities demand that the Government move faster in leasing federally owned Western land to coal-mining companies...
DIED. E.F. Schumacher, 66, German-born economist and author of the underground bestseller Small Is Beautiful; of a heart attack; while en route by train from Lausanne to Zurich, Switzerland. Schumacher, who immigrated to England before World War II, served as economic adviser to Britain's National Coal Board from 1950 to 1970. In his 1973 book, Schumacher maintained that continuous growth was not necessarily desirable; that small, energy-saving units of production could often best serve human needs...
...success in moving much of his energy program through the House under the guidance of Tip O'Neill. But in the Senate he faces opposition from Finance Chairman Russell Long, who claims there is no energy shortage. It is all there in the ground, Long argues-oil, shale, coal and gas-ready to be extracted if private industry is given incentives like price deregulation...
...love with a phrase. Some times he treats the past with a lovely disrespect. At the catacombs in Syracuse, 'there was an unhealthy-looking monk on duty at the picture-postcard stall. He looked as if he had just been disinterred himself." As for the catacombs, "a coal mine would have offered the same spectacle, really...