Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folks in Rawhide Village, a subdivision near Gillette, Wyo., figured something was amiss back in February when they found they could set fire to cracks in the street. Methane, it developed, was surfacing from coal deposits below. So was stinking -- and sickening -- hydrogen sulfide. By this month, with the hydrogen sulfide causing illnesses and the methane turning into a serious fire hazard, the Campbell County commission ordered some 180 families to evacuate by July 31. "Unlike a disaster such as a flood, you can't see it," says County Commissioner Tom Ostlund, who is seeking federal disaster funds...
...bank, high school, drugstore, hardware, harness and furniture stores, millinery store, meat market, two hotels, restaurant, two farm implement houses, photograph gallery, undertaker, opera house and lodge hall, telephone exchange, two poolrooms, barbershop, two livery barns, one auto livery, blacksmith and machine shop, newspaper, three elevators, lumberyard and three coal yards, feed mill, creamery and flour mill and two dray lines...
This cruel form of happiness and justice has, of course, inspired a worldwide campaign against South Africa. After years of prodding by protest groups, the U.S. Congress in 1986 banned new corporate investment in South Africa and stopped the import of South African steel, iron, coal, uranium and textiles, as well as the export of computers and petroleum to that country. Similar punishments have been imposed by the European Community, the Commonwealth and Japan...
...stock offerings in the news last week gave investors an interesting choice: Coal or diamonds, Conrail or Tiffany...
...part of President Reagan's privatization drive, the Government sold 85% of Conrail, the freight line that hauls everything from coal to cars. The $1.65 billion stock issue, priced at $28 a share, was the largest initial public offering in U.S. history. Wall Street gave the stock a green light: on the first day of trading, Conrail was the Big Board's most active issue. By week's end shares closed...