Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans will live in urban areas and drive perhaps twice as many cars as they do now. The hope is that Detroit will have long since designed exhaust-free electric or steam motors. Another hope is nuclear power to generate electricity in place of smoggy "fossil fuels" (oil, coal), but even with 50% nuclear power, U.S. energy needs will so increase by 2000 that fossil-fuel use may quadruple. Moreover, nuclear plants emit pollution: not only radioactive wastes, which must be buried, but also extremely hot water that has to go somewhere and can become a serious threat to marine...
...Collier's Friday Night (1909), The Daughter-in-Law (1912) and The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1914) are all set in the kitchens of proud, poverty-blighted Midlands coal-mining families like Lawrence's own; and all are variations on basic Lawrencian themes-the drunken father, the dominance of women, unrelenting intrafamily contests, and the devaluation of intimacy by privation. The plays are pure naturalism: the kitchen sink is never out of sight, and the weary labor of washing off the pit grime when the man comes home occurs in each of them. Yet, unlike the angry Osbornes...
...slow, relentless holding of long silences allow the language to flower in the mind and the subtle relationships of these numb, dumb characters to take form. Seldom in years have London audiences sat so awed and hushed as at the final scene of Mrs. Holroyd, in which the coal-blackened body of a miner (Michael Coles), the victim of a pit accident, lies on the floor of his shack while his widow (Judy Parfitt) begins to wash him, keening to herself...
Scrambling for survival capital, Riklis sold off Rapid-American's businesses (paint, printing and clothing), leaving it a mere shell. McCrory, too, came in for a paring. Riklis then bought control of Glen Alden Corp., a conglomerate with interests in coal and leather goods (which he sold) and textiles and R.K.O. theaters (which he retained). By 1965, such shufflings yielded some $50 million, which Riklis soon put to work. Since early 1966, Glen Alden has bought into building materials, B.V.D. clothing, and only three months ago, the diversified Stanley Warner Corp., whose interests include Playtex bras, movie theaters...
...land-owning family, large, patriarchal. My grandfather had 24 people in his household at one time. My father's family was more in the businessman's style, small merchants. In Italy, my father had a sort of little business, leasing forests for wood to use for lumber and coal. But then the coal industry got bad 'cause of gas being used. So his business went dead. Instead of starting another business he came to the States, when I was ten. Here he was only qualified to be a working class man, not knowing any English. He had a variety...