Word: coale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Output per man-hour in all private industry last year increased by more than 4%, surpassing the average of just over 3% a year for the 1947-59 period. In the steel industry, productivity rose 12%, in hard-coal mining 10.2%, in railroads 6%. Although non-farm industries advanced more than average, agriculture showed virtually no gain, indicating that the mechanization that increased productivity about 6% a year from 1947 through 1958 is largely completed...
...coal, steel and railroad gains were spurred by the economy's recovery from the 1958 recession, reflected the use of a smaller labor force and the benefits of new machinery installed just prior to the recession. In all, Government economists agree that for the private economy as a whole, 1959 was a better year than average. It would have been even better if the recovery from the recession had not been marred by the steel strike...
Sons and Lovers. An understated, succinct and highly effective rendering of the D. H. Lawrence novel, with a fine cast topped by Trevor Howard, playing the hardhanded, hard-drinking coal miner...
Sons and Lovers. An understated, succinct and highly effective rendering of the D. H. Lawrence novel, with a fine cast topped by Trevor Howard, playing the hardhanded, hard-drinking coal miner...
...result from wide-screen intimacy. Spectacle is firmly resisted; a disastrous mine explosion is recorded merely by a faint tremor on the surface of a millpond beside which two lovers are lolling. The impact, of course, is twice as forceful as if the air had been filled with flying coal carts. Much of the dialogue is Lawrence's, and it is a reminder of what a remarkable dialogue writer he was. Says a rasp-tongued widow: "I like a man about the house, if he's only something to snap at." Morel evokes enormous sympathy when he says...