Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...above statements also refer to the second criterion, the wide divergence of resources endowments between difficult countries. Japan has almost no natural resources. All the requirements of modern civilization, from food and fibre to coal and iron ore, must be imported. The costs of raw materials are higher for her than for the United States and Western Europe. Her capital resources are much smaller. The average American laborer, with ten times as much equipment to work with, produces six times as much as his Japanese counterpart. It is evident that Japanese industry cannot afford to pay the same wages...
...rich and well-run CHESAPEAKE & OHIO for control of the anemic BALTIMORE & OHIO. The other-designed to compete against a possible C & 0 -B & O system-is the proposal of the efficient coal-hauling NORFOLK & WESTERN to take over the NICKEL PLATE and then to lease the WABASH to form a 7,400-mile superfreight line with routes west into Missouri and north into Canada. The N. & W. proposal awaits an examiner's report; the C & O bid has won an examiner's approval. The final word is up to the ICC commissioners...
Adding on Inches. Son of a Siberian coal-mining engineer, Brumel had never competed in a major international meet before the 1960 Olympics. At 6 ft. 1 in., he was considered too small to be a threat to such towering kangaroos as World Record Holder John Thomas of the U.S. (6 ft. 5½ in. tall); coaches still held to the idea that the highest anyone could jump was about one foot above his own head. At Rome, Brumel jumped that foot, beat Thomas with a leap of 7 ft. 1 in., and he has been adding on new inches...
...tubby onetime coal-mine handyman has West Germany's industrial titans worried. As boss of his nation's 522,000-member mine and power workers' union, Heinrich Gutermuth, 64, recently inveigled the Adenauer government into arbitrating a 7% wage rise for his Ruhr miners by threatening a strike on the eve of important local elections. West Germany's faltering coal industry will have to rely on some sort of government subsidy to meet the extra $82 million-a-year wage bill. Now Gutermuth is touring the Common Market nations urging all six to nationalize their coal...
...ailments), you found only a dense, featureless white substance, like the inside of a potato. Spinal meningitis did not really hurt the potato husbands who incurred it, but it gave the overworked young potato doctor (generally called Hank, sometimes Mike) a chance to say, wearily, brushing a shock of coal-black hair from his eyes, that he was sorry, he had done all he could...