Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing. Long after the Nuremberg tribunal sentenced him to twelve years in prison, he, like Eichmann and the others, protested that he was just doing his duty. Released in 1951 through a controversial act of U.S. clemency, he soon broke his pledge to the Allies never again to produce coal or steel and began selling to new markets, especially in Eastern Europe and Asia. When the Krupp firm finally foundered in 1966, because of overextended credit, it was only because Alfried was clinging to old financial ways. He died soon after, and with him, the dynasty. His son Arndt...
...Wednesday, you make the move from whatever coal cellar the Registrar's Office has assigned you, to Emerson 105 (or the Geological Lecture Hall), thus enabling you to admit every student who came on Monday and thensome. It is common form, at this second meeting, to express contempt for the building's impersonal architecture and the room's awesome size. No explanation is required for the decision to accept all your applicants, save to say you found choosing among them impossible...
...Coal miners have a right to live, to breathe, and to be protected by 20th century safety standards. The nation must rise up and demand that strong and effective mine-safety legislation be passed by Congress...
...wake of the Consol 9 disaster, Representative Ken Hechler of Huntington, W. Va., had the necessary courage. Said he: "Coal miners don't have to die. In a civilized society, it is nothing short of criminal to allow present conditions to continue in the coal mines...
...exploitation by the California petroleum industry (Oil!), subservience of universities to business (The Goose-Step), cowardly book publishers (Money Writes!), the prosecution of Sacco and Vanzetti (Boston), the baronial life of Henry Ford (The Flivver King), and the ruthlessness of mine owners in the 1913-14 Colorado strike (King Coal). Sinclair also crusaded for birth control and childlabor laws, and helped found the American Civil Liberties Union...