Word: coaling
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Looking Up. At the moment, Catoosa (pop. 638) has neither a water nor a sewage system. Most of its streets are unpaved. Many of its stores are abandoned. No passenger trains stop at the forlorn depot; no freight has been moved out since a local coal mine shut down a year or so ago. Catoosa is not even on the Arkansas, which passes 15 miles away at Tulsa. But the river at Tulsa is so impossible that engineers threw up their hands, decided to branch off the Arkansas and dredge their channel up the Verdigris River, a tributary, to Catoosa...
When the project is completed, oil and coal from Oklahoma and bauxite from central Arkansas will move to market bv water. Shippers will save as much as $2.30 a ton on rock phosphate, 13? a bushel on wheat, up to $10 a ton on steel compared to present rail rates. In all, the Corps of Engineers estimates that the rebuilt Arkansas River will carry 13 million tons of cargo at an annual savings of $40 million under train costs...
...namesake that is totally unlike any other U.S. destroyer ever to hit the waves. The new Bainbridge is the latest member of the Navy's small fleet of atom-powered vessels. The first Bainbridge could make it just once across the Atlantic on a full load of coal; two-thirds of her sailors did nothing but stoke the boilers. On a single fueling of its reactor, the new Bainbridge will be able to cruise 180,000 miles at top speed-considerably over 30 knots...
...Oxford graduates, two from Cambridge, all of whom are no older than twenty-eight. The four are Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, and they have devised a series of satiric sketches--which they themselves perform--that razz the bejesus out of the Establishment, the Church, coal miners, pansies, the London Transport Board, Ludwig Beethoven, African nationalists, the Bomb, Harold Macmillan, World War II, William Shakespeare, and sundry other subjects of similar import and relevance to modern existence. The tone is radical and very youthful (although not doctrinaire in any way--probably the nearest thing...
...treasure-trove of silver, lead and zinc in 1885, B.H.P. turned to steelmaking in the early 1900s. Led by the late Essington Lewis, a single-minded empire builder who made himself Australia's "Mr. Steel," the company doggedly pursued efficiency, threw up new plants, cornered rich ore and coal reserves, and by 1935 had gobbled up its only major competitor. But it was the pell-mell postwar growth of heavy industry and construction in Australia that gave B.H.P. its biggest forward push. With all Australia virtually its private preserve, the company more than doubled its output in a decade...