Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a shanty Irish brogue who is founder and president of the Transport Workers Union and a raving Anglophobe who fought in the Irish Revolutionary Army. He had a meager childhood on a County Kerry farm, immigrated to the U.S. in 1926, sold religious pictures in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, later became a ditchdigger and a change maker in the New York subway system. Quill was a loyal Communist-liner when he founded the T.W.U. in 1934, once said, "I'd rather be called a Red by a rat than...
...York. The situation, however, annoys European governments and agencies whose own issues are shouldered aside in the rush for American issues, which pay less interest but often have the attraction of convertibility into shares of common stock. Recent Dutch and Finnish bond issues sold badly; the European Coal and Steel Community has postponed a $20 million issue in view of market uncertainty as has the Transalpine Pipeline Co.; the Swiss bond market has sagged 10% in recent months as investors have sold European holdings to buy American. Europeans are increasingly waspish about the disproportionate share of their limited market that...
Dunlop, a labor economist and student of technological change, is a member of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. He has participated in labor-management mediations in the coal, railroad, atomic energy, and construction industries...
...Steel, he has not only built one of the world's most successful manganese mining operations, but has managed to avoid the attacks that Brazilian nationalists have made on other foreign interests. By pushing iron-ore exports, Antunes expects Brazil in time to earn enough abroad to import coal, and so become one of the world's major producers of steel...
...Coal & Candy. One of Bubas' key approaches to his business is good recruiting: ten out of the twelve players on the Duke squad are out-of-staters. To land Center Mike Lewis, a 6-ft. 7-in. sophomore who has averaged 13.3 rebounds per game this season, Bubas reached all the way to Missoula, Mont. -on the recommendation of a Duke coed whose brother had played with Lewis in high school. Figuring that the coal and steel country of Pennsylvania ought to be a happy hunting ground for raw basketball talent as well as for football, Bubas conducted...