Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Liberal-Christian coalition Deputies. Then the strikes began, and in town after town pent-up frustration exploded with the fury of a coiled spring. First out were the solid, dependable teachers and low-level provincial employees. Then, unexpectedly, thousands of postal workers, railroad engineers, electricity and gas plant workers, coal miners and dockers downed tools in the factory-filled French-speaking south, where the Socialists are strongest...
...mail carrier in Atlanta, and the family moved to a frame house on Whitehall Street, just beyond the edge of the Negro district. The children wore underwear made at home out of flour sacks, often trudged along the nearby railroad tracks in winter to gather stray lumps of coal. But the parents had something more valuable than material advantages to give. "We grew up," recalls Dean's elder brother Roger, a University of Tennessee physics professor, "in a strict atmosphere of moral integrity, imposed by both parents and schoolteachers. We were under constant admonition to excel...
...Norfolk & Western Railway, which reaches from Norfolkthrough the West Virginia coal fields up to southern Ohio is one of the nations best-run railroads. A ride over its main line, says the Handbook of American Railroads, instills "a sense that everything is in 'apple-pie order' and as it should be. "The road is also growth-minded; last year the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a merger between the N. & W. and the Virginian, the first merger of two independently owned railroads in this century. Last week the road's go-ahead President Stuart T. Saunders announced...
...gang goes in through a coal chute. Unfortunately, the furnace has been converted to oil, and the first man lands in a tank of it. Somebody drops the burglar tools. Somebody else puts a foot through a skylight. Once inside the apartment-the old ladies are out of town for the weekend-the intruders delicately drill a hole in the wall that stands between them and the jeweler's safe. Spfluroosh! A jet of water jumps out of the wall-they managed to hit a pipe. And so on to the climax, which comes in one of the grandest...
...allowed to field a cross country team composed of a 30-year-old Polish refugee, three Australians aged 28, 26, and 25, and a 24-year-old Scot. The magazine thinks it is even better that McNeese State College in Louisiana managed to recruit a 39-year-old English coal miner and cross country runner...