Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast with the cock-a-hoop mood of a few years back, most Russians now seem bitterly resigned to the shortages, discomforts and joyless conformity of life as they now know it. In the cities all winter, housewives have had to wait interminably in line for potatoes, macaroni, flour, coal and coarse, gritty brown bread; in some areas, where bread ran out, they have heeded Marie Antoinette's apocryphal advice and queued for cookies and cake instead. Asked recently how he thought 1964 would turn out, one Muscovite replied dryly: "Worse than 1963, but better than...
...company's oxygen furnaces cook steel four times faster than the best open-hearth furnaces, thus reducing costs by up to $8 per ton. J. & L. also saves money by using computers to handle everything from customers' orders to inventory control. It operates the most highly mechanized coal mine in the U.S. near Pittsburgh, led the way in sintering iron ore to make blast furnaces more productive...
...sales, is no miracle worker; at the root of all this benevolence is the familiar "cost-price-sales spiral"-as costs drop, prices follow and sales rise. Ward is pushing cost economy with such technological advances as a planned "power-by-wire" generating plant in the southern Illinois coal fields, which will transmit power 175 miles to Chicago at a sizable saving over coal shipments. He recently rented an apartment in Chicago's new Marina City to see how its electrical space heating works. "Perfectly," says Ward. His largest monthly bill so far has been...
...that we were both in that state, but neither wanted to take the responsibility of declaring it: the ghost of respectability, perhaps, but also the fear of rebuff and making fools of ourselves. ... The fire began to die and the room to get cold. Should I put a coal on the fire? It would seem to suggest too coarsely that I took it for granted we were going to continue sitting there. . . . So I didn...
Dutch State Mines was organized in 1902 to promote newly discovered coal veins that were being ignored by private capital; but since then, DSM's research teams have moved beyond coal into more profitable fields, including plastics and fertilizers. Chemicals now contribute 40% of DSM's $190 million annual sales, thus helping to turn an $8,000,000 loss on coal into an overall $4,700,000 annual profit. Next year new revenues will begin coming in from recently discovered natural gas fields...