Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bloody confrontation between militants of the 180,000-member National Union of Mineworkers and the state-owned National Coal Board entered its 36th week, the most disruptive labor unrest the country has witnessed since the General Strike of 1926 was no longer just a power struggle between miners and mine managers over the issue of unproductive collieries. Instead, with economic losses mounting and with television providing scenes of charging mounted police and rock-throwing strikers, the dispute had become a national trauma...
...most observers of the long-running strike, the psychological advantage appeared to be tilting toward the coal board. One reason was the disclosure late last month that the N.U.M. had sought financial assistance from, of all sources, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Last week in London, Scargill unabashedly made a similar appeal for assistance at the Soviet embassy. TASS said that Soviet miners have contributed half a million pounds to the British miners' union. The strike was also weakened by last month's decision of the smaller mine safety supervisors' union not to join the N.U.M. walkout...
That the Peckinpaugh is no pleasure craft is evident. Built in 1921 and named for a Great Lakes coal shipper whose brother Roger once managed the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians, the Peckinpaugh was drafted into service during World War II to carry coal offshore, and made several runs to Cuba. But then it was restored to its original purpose, which was to run the still waters of the canal...
While ferns are a valuable asset to oilmen, coal producers use them to judge the quality of coal deposits...
Since a higher grade coal will contain different fern spores than a lower grade coal, identifying the type of spore will indicate to coalmen the quality of their deposit...