Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the prospects for an end to the 64-day strike suddenly brightened. Exhausted from ten hours of bargaining, Church emerged from a suite in Washington's Capital Hilton Hotel and announced that a new deal had been reached with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, which represents 130 leading soft-coal mineowners. Said Church: "I finally made it; we have a contract." Asked if the U.M.W.'s membership would ratify the proposed pact, the union boss gamely ventured, "I think...
...initial walkout in March, although the new contract sweetens the deal to 38% over three years and four months, as compared with 36% for a flat three years in the first contract. The most important question was a proposed change in the longstanding policy that required the coal companies to make royalty payments into union health and retirement funds when they bought nonunion coal. The union leadership's decision to drop that provision in the first contract had been the basis for the rank and file's rejection of the deal. The B.C.O.A. has now agreed to resume...
...actually refuse to speak with students if he is concentrating on business commitment. This problem becomes serious especially when a professor is doing research in a field not related to his academic research. Albert recalls one extreme case concerning a chemistry professor who wrote the financial books for a coal company...
Short began life there in 1924, the son of a black coal miner in Danville, Ill. He taught himself to play the piano when he was three or four, and when he was eleven, he went touring the country as the Miniature King of Swing. The king was soon deposed, however. Bookings became scarce after a couple of years, and Bobby returned to Danville to finish high school. After that, it was back to the piano and the saloons of Chicago, and then Los Angeles, where he stayed, off and on, for more than a decade. He made one brief...
...Coal companies are planning to build new terminals at Hampton Roads and other ports, but a more serious problem will remain. No Eastern or Gulf Coast harbor is deep enough to accommodate so-called supercolliers: giant vessels that can carry more than 125,000 tons of coal, which is at least twice the load of standard ships. Many American ports, including Hampton Roads, Baltimore, New Orleans and Mobile, need to be dredged to the 55-ft. depth required by the supercolliers. But congressional appropriations for these projects have been held up for years, while lawmakers wrangle about which port should...