Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the ancient bed of a glacial lake, U.S. 89 runs eastward out of Great Falls, Mont., and climbs into the Little Belt Mountains. There, above the once prosperous coal-mining town of Belt (pop. 757), a plain link fence encloses two acres of barren land and Russian thistle, four watchful electronic sentinels, and a few drab slabs of concrete. Beneath that concrete is buried an Air Force Minuteman missile-one of the most efficient instruments of intercontinental destruction the U.S. possesses...
...heyday for scientists studying England's fogs, a unique compound of sulphur dioxide, chemical wastes, coal smoke, gasoline and diesel fumes. (The sulphur level alone last week reached 14 times the normal concentration.) The Ministry of Aviation had been waiting for just this chance to test its new blind-flying system for bad weather landings, rushed a plane in to touch down successfully at London Airport. For Washington's Dr. Richard Prindle, a U.S. Government air-pollution specialist, it was the opportunity of a decade. Rushing across the Atlantic, he was diverted to Frankfurt, arrived twelve hours late...
...Soviet-built refinery at Sain Shanda. At the town of Sukhe Bator is a paper mill and a factory that turns out prefabricated houses. The Russian metallurgical plant at Darkhan produces 300,000 tons of steel per year. Soviet geologists claim to have discovered important deposits of coal, copper, manganese fluoride, tin, zinc and wolfram...
...Japan's Kanto Plain, on which Tokyo and Yokohama nestle, makes smog differently but just as deadly. Countless industrial plants burn soft coal or oil, said Lieut. Colonel Harvey W. Phelps, but few have proper smokestacks. Acrid smoke can be seen billowing out of doors, windows and ventilators near ground level...
...Britain's soft-coal-burning open fireplaces had already poisoned the air sufficiently to help kill Samuel Johnson in 1784. Now, combined with auto exhausts, oil and other chemical fumes, they are killing Britons in droves. London's Epidemiologist Donald D. Reid noted that although British physicians call the resulting lung disease chronic bronchitis, it appears to be essentially the same as American doctors' "pulmonary emphysema," now being reported with increasing frequency. Wherever it occurs, this kind of lung damage might as well be called "the English disease," said Dr. Reid...