Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coal Dust...
...From a distance, the lunar soil samples look like light coal dust, but "half or more of the loose stuff is broken-up shards of glass," Frondel said yesterday. Individual pieces are actually white, green, brown or colorless. Besides these fagged particles, the researchers have found smooth beads of glass, shaped like dumbells, baseballs, and gelatin capsules, roughly a millimeter longer...
During the Truman Administration, Dunlop served on panels which investigated the 1950 coal miners' strike and mediated labor disputes for the Atomic Energy Commission. He was also chief arbitrator for the construction industry from 1948 until 1957, and President Eisenhower named him chairman of an emergency fact-finding commission during a railroad strike...
...Wednesday, you make the move from whatever coal cellar the Registrar's Office has assigned you, to Emerson 105 ( or the Geological Lecture Hall ), thus enabling you to admit every student who came on Monday and then some. It is common form, at this second meeting, to express contempt for the building's impersonal architecture and the room's awesome size. No explanation is required for the decision to accept all your applicants, save to say you found choosing among them impossible...
...worked for ten years and I hated it. I wanted always to get out as soon as I could... I was in a horrible thing called the coal business, and I also got into the security business. I never made anything out of the coal business. but I speculated and made a little out of the securities, and I got ?? I wanted a way of life, a way of life rather than just to make money...