Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workers by paying wages 20% higher than their salaries back home. Nor do the West Germans stop searching for manpower at the frontiers of Europe. This month Bonn captured the record for long-distance hiring by welcoming the vanguard of 700 Japanese miners who will dig in the Ruhr coal fields...
...only as productivity does. Steelworkers figure that they have been boosting productivity by somewhat more than 3% a year, while the steelmakers contend that the rise is 2% or less. Last week management's argument was publicly voiced by U.S. Steel Corp. President Leslie B. Worthington, 59, a coal miner's son who rose through sales to become second in command (to Chairman Roger Blough) of the world's biggest steelmaker. Said the usually soft-spoken Worthington...
...waist-deep water, but loft. waves broke the chain, dragged two middle-aged couples to their deaths. Mrs. Ralph Poynton, 82, refused help as water leaped at the foundation of her Rehoboth Beach home, told rescuers: "I've got plenty of food, and there's a coal fire going in the kitchen range. I'll stay." Within hours she was dead of a heart attack...
...surrender power to the White House. Now it is being asked to empower the President to cut most tariffs in half and to sweep them away altogether in industries in which the U.S. and Western Europe dominate world production, e.g., cars and trucks, farm and office machines, planes, coal, rubber products...
Bell Ringer. In Bill Scranton, the Republicans introduced a young, fresh face, the scion of a wealthy and prominent Pennsylvania family (the state's populous coal-mining city bears their name). Bill Scranton flew transports in the Army Air Force for four years during World War II, serving in South America, Africa and the Middle East. He was Special Assistant to Secretary of State Christian Herter before he fought his way to victory in Pennsylvania's largely Democratic Tenth Congressional District with a doorbell-punching campaign that stressed local issues, including his part in bringing new industries into...