Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half, while nursing the frontier's commerce and industry, the Ohio continued to be a 981-mile-long showcase of nature's charms. Rising at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers at Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh's "Golden Triangle"), the Ohio wound through coal-rich mountains to reach the seven hills of Cincinnati, cultural center of the new West. Alive with bass and blue gill, it foamed bright white at Louisville's limestone falls, poured clean blue into the Mississippi's brown waters at Cairo (pronounced care-oh), in Illinois' Little...
...ingredients essential to a highly industrialized society are present in the combination of those substances." The dwindling of usable supplies of fresh water is being matched by steady progress toward a cheap method of desalinizing sea water; nuclear energy has dispelled the neo-Malthusians' favorite bogeyman of exhausted coal and oil deposits; and should the earth's supply of uranium ever be used up, men could turn to solar energy-which is already used in Japan to operate 200,000 water heaters...
Menna Gallic's brief and beautifully written first novel of the Welsh coal fields is the sort of book that bestselling authors should be required to copy two or three times in longhand. The language has a strong, sly wit, and the story-of a troubled, strikebound village-is told with force and skill. Welsh-born Novelist Gallie is able to give her sympathy to the strikers without the posturing of protest literature, and to evoke the gamy folk flavor of her villagers without being cute or condescending...
...reason for Krupp's gesture: he is hoping for, and will probably get, a year's extension-or even a cancellation-of the Allied demand that he divest himself of all his coal and steel holdings by January...
...TRADE DEAL with Italy is expected to bring $60 million trade increase between two nations in 1960. New $200 million trade agreement calls for Italy to import such raw materials as lumber, coal, petroleum products and basic chemicals. Russia will import machinery, steel products and artificial fibers...