Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most cities in a similar fix would have settled for moving their costly harbor works, but Duisburg found an ingenious way out. Under the city-harbor and all-lie three rich seams of coal. Engineers figured that if this coal was extracted properly, the ground above would settle evenly, and the whole harbor region could be lowered by as much as 7.5 ft., permitting the lowered Rhine to fill the harbor once more. There was $150 million worth of coal below the city, and it could be sold to pay for most of the surface damage caused by the settling...
...pump oil into the appropriate hydraulic cylinders to raise a section or shove it sideways. So far they have kept the roadway in fairly good shape. The streams of motorists who use the bridge have noticed only slight, occasional waviness. The waviness will probably continue until 1970, when the coal miners burrowing under Duisburg will have finished lowering their city...
...toward industrial revolution. Ten dams are rising in the abundant streams and rivers that feed the Tigris and Euphrates, those watering founts of ancient civilization. Going up on the Black Sea coast at Eregli is a $235 million, government-subsidized iron and steel complex that will be stoked by coal from nearby deposits. A consortium of Royal Dutch/Shell, British Petroleum and Mobil Oil built a $56 million refinery that started cracking at Mersin on the southern coast last year. Recently Goodrich, U.S. Rubber and Italy's Pirelli set up plants in Turkey, and Chrysler will soon begin to assemble...
...eight-month drought, which has turned the southern part of Brazil-from the Uruguayan border to Rio-into a tinderbox. All it took was some farmers burning off their land for the next planting, cigarettes carelessly flicked away, campfires not quite snuffed out, or a spark from an old coal-burning locomotive. What started as a few scattered blazes soon blew in to hundreds of fires, then thousands...
Last week the American Chemical Society whipped up the familiar enthusiasm for pentazocine, a drug developed by Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute. Synthesized from coal tar, pentazocine has been tested at Baylor University School of Medicine in Houston. "With this drug," says Baylor's Dr. Arthur S. Keats, "the fear of addiction in chronic pain will be eliminated." But because further tests are needed, not until December will the Food and Drug Administration be asked to approve pentazocine for general prescription use. And it will take much longer to show whether it is really better than many disappointing predecessors...