Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mellowing in retirement after some 40 years as chief of the United Mine Workers, Unionist John Llewellyn Lewis, 80, was slated to get proof that his former foes, the coal-mine operators, have mellowed along with him. Ready to honor Shakespearean Scholar Lewis at a banquet in Washington this week, the Consolidation Coal Co.'s Board Chairman George Love, acting on behalf of the operators, planned to present Lewis with a rare, 15-volume set of Shakespeare's plays. The books were published in 1793 and purchased from Washington's Folger Shakespeare Library...
...least privileged members of the Union. Each year upward of 10,000 West Virginians migrate to other states in search of a better life; 70,000 men are unemployed, and the relief rolls are so distended that only authentic "unemployables" are eligible for public assistance. The chronically depressed coal mines have cut their payrolls from 125,000 men to 50,000 in little more than a decade. The welfare statism of the New Deal still carries a lot of magic in the mountain glens. Yet the voters also retain a back-country suspicion of foreign entanglements, and Kennedy and Humphrey...
...voting rolls; 5) an average $1,100 raise in teachers' salaries and a probe of the inept education system; 6) establishment of a $4,000,000 business-development corporation ("little RFC") and a $2,000,000 industrial-loan authority to bolster the state's sagging coal-mining and agricultural economy...
...Communists have set up five refugee reception centers on their side of the border and claim that last year 63,076 people crossed over to the East, 41,585 of them redefectors who had left East Germany and then decided to return. Some were miners fleeing the Ruhr coal surplus, others had family problems like a sick mother back home, still others were misfits who had not made themselves a place in the swift-paced life of the Federal Republic. Western officials estimate that the reverse migration runs to about 10% to 15% of the westward flow...
...Germany, the Frankfurt exchange retreated only momentarily from its all-time high of 386 on the industrial index, soon rallied to 380. German experts blamed the break chiefly on massive flotations of new stock by expanding German coal and steel firms, which temporarily flooded the market...