Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sorely needed urgency into the search for solutions. Investigation proceeds in a wide range. Some suggestions have been heard that existing strike penalties are not severe enough to deter strikes and should be increased. Advocates of this position refer to the example of John L. Lewis' 1946 coal miners' walkout, in which a $700,000 fine, imposed by the U.S. Government, effectively throttled the strike...
Year after year, in northern France's flat and foggy coal-mining town of Harnes, the girls of the Duhamel textile factory toiled away sewing trousers and parkas. One day in July 1966, as Léon Duhamel was wishing some of his 500 employees bonnes vacances, he was stunned to find that practically all spent even their vacations in dreary Harnes. To remedy that, he devised a scheme of "snow and sew" and this winter put it to the test...
...children he treats are undersized, half are infested with worms and intestinal parasites, and over 60% have rotting teeth. Not one house in ten in Wolfe County is sound; up to 30% of mountain folk are functionally illiterate and condemned to idleness because their meager skills as coal miners have been obviated by the huge strip-mining machines that rip apart Kentucky's hillside seams. Federal aid to Appalachia, totaling $450 million since 1965, has done little to alleviate their plight. Industries that could bring work have shunned their ravaged landscape...
...vacant lot leased by the Supreme Court for employee parking. Evidently the lot was also used by the whole neighborhood as a combination dump and doggie-run. Schramm tried complaining to the Supreme Court building's superintendent, the Board of Health, the Supreme Court marshal and the coal company that owns the lot-all of whom passed the buck. Schramm finally filed suit, naming Warren as one of the three defendants. Next morning at 8 a.m., two janitors appeared to clean...
...Federalist. Rey, 65, has been in the business of building Europe since the end of World War II. As Belgian Minister for Reconstruction, he was one of the earliest supporters of the Schuman Plan, which led to the European Coal and Steel Community. As Minister of Economic Affairs, he helped found the Common Market, becoming one of its nine original commissioners in 1958. Like most dedicated Eurocrats, he wants a Europe united politically as well as economically. But Rey has no intention of turning the Market into the French-dominated society expounded by De Gaulle. His model, rather...