Word: coaling
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Laid low by layoffs in its coal pits and factories. Kentucky has approved the farthest-reaching of all state veterans' bonus bills and one of the first anywhere since the palmy post-Korea days. Beginning in April, the state will pay bonuses averaging $342 apiece and ranging up to $500 to every veteran of any of the last four wars (Spanish-American through Korea) who lived in Kentucky at the time he entered the service. Also eligible: veterans' widows, widowers, parents and orphaned children now under 18. Kentucky estimates that some 450,000 people will collect a bonus...
...generations in the Kentucky hill country his family had been farmers, moonshiners, preachers and feudists. His father was an impoverished and illiterate coal miner. But young, log cabin-born Jesse Stuart, who often went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Robert Burns, was determined to go to college (Said a neighbor: "He's a plum fool. If he was a young'un of mine, I'd whip his tail with a hickory"). Although hiring out to farmers for 25? a day at the age of nine, and working full time from ages...
...DESIRING, by Menno Gallie (192 pp.; Harper; $3.50) is a sort of border ballad about the frontier between England and Wales. Few Americans think of that line as much of a barrier, but to Griff Rowlands, a hymn-singing Welshman from a valley full of coal tips and chapels, it is booby-trapped with social snares and moral menace. At 24, he gets an appointment as assistant lecturer in mathematics at one of the new raw "red brick" universities in the English provinces. Starting writh this subject matter, Menna Gallie's brisk, garrulous and altogether charming novel serves...
...excepted were the zealous followers of Labor Leader André Renard. After a harangue from Renard, 600 of his workers rioted through the streets of Liège. Renard's intransigence kept the big steel plants closed, but other Liège strikers deserted him. Streetcars ran and coal mines were operating. Furthermore, Renard had antagonized most of his fellow Socialists. At week's end even he gave up, bowed to a union leaders' vote to end the strike...
...which will be called Rand Selection Corp., Ltd., is a holding company made up of a combine of six older holding companies, including three controlled by Oppenheimer and one, Rand American Investments, Ltd., owned by Engelhard. Rand Selection's portfolio will be 44% gold mines, some copper and coal mines, and industrial firms...