Word: coal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ship had made several trips to Aspinwall and back, but as Kinder relates, its steam engines leaked water, which sloshed without restraint, because the 300-ft. wooden hull was built without bulkheads. Coal, which was both fuel and ballast, was loaded at New York for the round trip, so with more than half its coal exhausted, the ship rode too high in the water on the return. Storm winds canted the hull sharply. Pumps failed. Water swamped the starboard fires...
President George Bush tapped her to be his secretary of labor, and there Dole had again to be prepared as she was thrown in the middle of a man's world of coal-mine strikes and labor negotiations...
...ENERGY SUPPLY Oil 40% Gas 24% Coal 21% Nuclear 7% AVERAGE WEEKLY WORKING HOURS Japan 38.3 U.S. 37.9 Britain 35.6 France 31.7 Netherlands 30.8 Germany...
...ENERGY SUPPLY Coal 74% Wood...
...occupy corner offices and wear pinstripe suits are more woman-friendly than the ones whose names are stitched on their shirts. So it is depressing to realize that the Vatican and the Pentagon, Wall Street and the Senate Office Buildings, have been as tough to integrate as any coal mine or fire department...