Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days the rain had been falling, soaking the bleak Welsh coal-mining village of Aberfan and the 800-ft. slag heap towering above it like a black, oozing Everest. Then one morning last week, David John Evans, a maintenance man with a local colliery, climbed to the top of the waste heap to look into reports that the gigantic mass was moving. With a shock, Evans discovered that it was. "Suddenly I saw the heap shifting," he recalled later. "The movement was like thunder. I could hear trees on each side being crushed to matchwood...
...Russian couture, lift ed hemlines above the knee, and along with those modest Russian miniskirts took Courrèges to boot. Then the State Committee on Prices hiked the tags on a wide array of heavy industrial products, with increases ranging from 35% on metals to 75% on coal. Finally the Agriculture Ministry announced a bumper grain harvest for 1966 of some 160 million tons, the largest in Soviet history and up 40 million tons over last year's yield...
...most important step in modernizing Russian economics, however, was the decision to raise basic industrial prices. For years the prices of coal, steel, gas and fuel oil have been kept far below cost in order to forge a heavy industrial base. Now that Russia can afford to ogle the age of affluence, it needs not rigid central planning but the flexibility of a market economy using such Western techniques as profits to measure performance and buyers' wants to dictate output. Kosygin has promised to switch all Russian enterprise away from rigid central planning by 1968. Already 673 firms employing...
...Power & Light, due to open next year, is expected to run for 4 mills per kwh, as does Consolidated Edison's Indian Point plant 30 miles up the Hudson River from Manhattan. That is 33% less per kw-h than it costs Con Edison to make power from coal in Manhattan. Even the TVA, though blessed with abundant sources of coal, will switch to fissionable fuel at its new Decatur, Ala., plant, largest (2,200,000 kw.) of its kind...
...voltage lines. Nuclear plants remain too costly for small utility companies or sparsely populated regions. In such Southwestern states as Texas, utility men insist that they will rely on cheap natural gas for years. With the total U.S. demand for electricity doubling every decade, even General Electric figures that coal consumption in U.S. power plants will more than double between...