Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Friends. The war-ravaged land that Diem took over was hardly a nation at all. Two weeks after he was installed as Premier, Viet Nam was carved in half at the Geneva bargaining table by the weary and discouraged French, who agreed to hand over the north, with its coal and iron, to the Communists. That left Diem's amputated south to go it alone. The economy was in tatters, and almost immediately the roads from the north were clogged with the flow of refugees who were to total 880,000 within a year. To cope with his problems, Diem...
...executive officer. Pittsburgh's personable, plain-spoken George H. Love, 63, who heads the new committee, agreed to resign as chairman of the M. A. Hanna Co. and as a member of the executive committee of National Steel Corp. (He will remain chairman of Pittsburgh's Consolidation Coal Co.) For Chrysler, this was clearly the beginning of the transition from one-man rule to the committee management system that works so smoothly at Ford and General Motors...
...third of the 20,000 prisoners arrested in the early days of the military takeover, including 2,560 of the 3,098 political prisoners. Pak also announced the outlines of a five-year plan to raise the gross national product 46.3% by development of Korea's power, cement, coal, steel, oil refining and fertilizer industries...
...United Mine Workers of America, a massive operation in 26 states, financed entirely by a royalty of 40? on every ton of coal mined. It runs ten hospitals in three states, gives miners and their families little choice of physician. It has closed its panels against physicians and surgeons whom it accuses of doing unnecessary services and padding fees...
...system of refining iron ore with natural gas instead of coke. If successful, A.D.L.'s "fluid-bed" furnace would enable coal-poor countries, such as Venezuela, to develop their own steel industries...