Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coal Miner Arnold Smith, 46, has been so completely freed of the palsy that he has taken up a new career as a physiotherapy aide at the Whitesburg Memorial Hospital in Kentucky. Remarkably erect Joan Harris, now 15, of Larchmont, N.Y., is doing well in school. The boy, 13, is as straight as a spruce, and supple as a birch...
...park of landscaped terraces, ornamental walks, stately trees, lawns, fountains, plus two teahouses, three bronze statues, and a profusion of ornate limestone flower pots, cornucopias and wrestling cupids. No commercial vehicle ever scuffed the smooth gravel of its front driveway in the old days; and it took so much coal to animate the giant boilers that a special narrow-gauge underground railroad, complete with a turntable in the subbasement, was constructed to keep the hungry furnaces fed. The Berwind family, who built it, was in the coal business...
Forced Draft. Since 1956 the total steel-producing capacity of the six Common Market nations plus Britain has jumped from 86 million tons a year to 105.5 million. The eleven-year-old European Coal and Steel Community, forerunner of the Common Market, spurred much of the increase when it threw the once highly protected Continental steelmakers into direct competition with one another, and thereby forced them to modernize. And Europe's increasing prosperity has inevitably increased its need for steel...
...cars, Van Doorne has had a hard time finding enough workers in the labor-short Netherlands, recently took on 1,200 Belgians at DAF's Eindhoven plant. Pleased with their work, he plans to build a second DAF plant in Belgium's Limburg province, where coal-mine automation will ultimately idle...
...arguments about mental v. physical work, said Cornell University's Dr. Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr., is the question. "What is work?" Using the physicist's definition,"A force acting through a distance," work done by the heart could be measured in relation to the amount of coal a man shovels, or how much tennis he plays, or how far he walks. But man's nervous system is a data-processing mechanism that regulates the rate and rhythm of the heart without regard to the volume or energy of the signals it receives. Bright sunlight or a thunderclap...