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...always had a reputation for getting things done. As Party Secretary for Upper Silesia, Gierek was noted for being ready to fight central authorities in Warsaw to gain benefits for his workers; under his tenure they enjoyed the highest standard of living in the country. Gierek came from a coal-mining family, and his father, grandfather and an uncle all died in mining accidents. In 1923, after his father's death, Gierek's mother took him to France, where at the age of 13 he began Communist in the mines; a few years later he joined the French...
...House will point to the $25 billion in programs to promote U.S. energy production and conservation that are already part of this year's Synthetic Fuels Corp. legislation. In addition, the President will promise to spend heavily for mass transportation and upgrade rail and port facilities for shipping coal. Three weeks ago, Carter told a meeting of the National Urban League that these energy proposals alone would create "literally millions of jobs...
...sunrise one morning two weeks ago, Captain Kenneth Redden and his nine-man crew maneuvered the tugboat Susan McBride and her 15 barges, heading north to take on coal, into a mooring along the Mississippi River near Alton, Ill. For the next three days, Redden and his men watched TV and played cards, while waiting to get the vessels through the antiquated locks that are known as the Turnstyle of the Upper Mississippi...
Redden's delay was typical of the problems of transporting the U.S.'s largest potential source of energy. While experts predict that America's vast coal reserves could become a major alternative to OPEC oil and an important export product, the use of coal is being thwarted by the U.S.'s inadequate and outdated system of transporting the valuable black rock...
...been discussing its great plans for coal ever since the first oil crisis seven years ago. Presidents since Richard Nixon have proposed legislation that would get the nation to use more coal, but in 1979 the coal industry mined only 770 million tons, 100 million below capacity. Despite President Carter's pledge at the June economic summit meeting in Venice to double coal production by 1990, this year miners are expected to dig only 815 million tons, an increase...