Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's No. 1 bobsledder is a coal-and-ice dealer from Cortina, Italy. Eugenio Monti, 32, broke both legs in a skiing accident years ago; one cheek is deeply scarred from a splintering crash two years ago at St. Moritz, when his sled turned a double-somersault. "Brakes?" snorts Monti. "You should use them only to stop at the finish...
Like some modern Moloch, South Africa's mining industry has long come to expect its regular sacrifice of human lives. And even though in good years South Africa has 15 times as many fatalities per ton of coal mined as the U.S., the fact that most miners are black men has kept the subject from becoming too important in South Africa. But three weeks after the Coalbrook rockfall entombed 411 blacks and six whites in the worst mining disaster in the nation's history (TIME, Feb. 1), the Union finally was working up a real case of public...
...Resistance, he went on to high-echelon positions in the French Finance Ministry. Almost every U.S. loan to France from 1947 to 1953 (some $800 million) was in fact largely negotiated by Delouvrier. A devoted European, he won a reputation as a tough negotiator in the European Coal and Steel Community. In 1958 De Gaulle sent him on a fact-finding mission to Algeria. On his return to Paris, Delouvrier expressed concern over the way some officials and army officers were interpreting government policy. "Don't you worry," said the President. "Now, there is De Gaulle...
GERMANY'S ALFRIED KRUPP will never have to obey Allies' postwar order that he sell the coal mines and steel plants in his big empire, say top West German businessmen. Krupp has won his second one-year delay of sale deadline. If anyone bids for properties (worth more than $750 million), Krupp can legally claim that bid is too low, or (if it comes from a foreigner) that it is not in the interests of Germany...
Strike for a Kingdom, by Menna Gallic. A brief and beautifully written first novel of labor strife in the Welsh coal fields...