Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last all was ready. On Christmas Eve, Weidner and Wagner piled their wives and four children aboard, not forgetting three tons of household belongings. For added protection the plotters shoveled a ton of coal and potatoes into the back of the bus. Then they chugged off north toward Berlin along back roads to escape Communist patrols. Just before they reached the Wall, they planned to swing west in order to enter the East-West Autobahn leading to the U.S. sector of the city...
...windshield smashed, its passengers shaken, its cargo of coal and potatoes in every corner of the cab, the old bus finally lurched to a stop a few miles down the road where the Communists no longer mattered-at the U.S. checkpoint, a foot or two inside West Berlin...
...attention," says Rod. "But then I decided it was sort of repulsive." He turned them all down in favor of a straight athletic scholarship to West Virginia (tuition, room and board). Besides, it was flattering when the legislature put him in a class with West Virginia's coal mines. "That," says Rod, "was a nice gesture...
After a conflict-of-interest scandal involving William C. Newberg, Colbert's personal choice to run Chrysler's day-today operations, there was an outburst of stockholder suits and public recriminations. Chrysler Director George Love, 62, the big, amiable chairman of Pittsburgh's Consolidation Coal Co., stepped in to fill the leadership breach. With the support of a committee of outside directors, he ousted Colbert. But the task of finding a new president and operating boss for Chrysler proved difficult. Unable to persuade anyone outside the company to risk the job, the directors in July 1961 turned to Administrative Vice...
...always in good humor." Says Chairman George Love: "He has the rare capacity to persuade his associates to express opinions contrary to his own." Adds Love of his own relationship with Townsend: "Let's say Townsend has an uncle?an uncle with some experience m managing a pretty tough coal business. This uncle is looking over his nephew's shoulder because the uncle has invested $20 million of the family's money in his nephew's business." Love, so far, has found little need for uncle to second-guess nephew...