Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some other states are slowly climbing out of the grueling two-year recession, West Virginia seems to be sinking deeper. Many of the industries most debilitated by the nation's economic woes-coal, electric power, steel, primary metals and chemicals-form the basis for the state's economy. Unlike other industrial states such as Michigan and Ohio, West Virginia has made little effort to diversify and retool its economy by luring high-tech businesses. "Usually West Virginia begins to recover about six months after the nation," says Arnold Margolin, the state's chief economist. "But there...
...year ago, Constance Stepney's husband Roosevelt, 47, was making $85 a day as a dumper at one of U.S. Steel Corp.'s five local coal mines, confidently dubbed "the billion-dollar mine." But then U.S. Steel closed all the mines down. Now Roosevelt hangs around the house doing odd jobs and collects $188 a week in unemployment compensation to add to his wife's $112 weekly paycheck from her cashier's job. With a 13-year-old son, they are barely scraping along, fearful that the unemployment benefits may soon be exhausted. But Mrs. Stepney...
...stutter. To augment his $1,800-a-year church salary, he sold corn and cabbages out of his garden. His mother Claribel helped out by giving piano lessons. Fritz, as he was called, had his own chores, like gathering corncobs to burn in the kitchen stove instead of coal. He was an enthusiastic singer who competed in school contests; at Sunday church services the Mondales led the congregation in hymns. In 1938, when Fritz was ten, his father wanted the family to see the nation's capital. He nailed wooden boards around the sides of a flatbed truck, loaded...
...military air transport; of heart disease; in Gloucester, Va. He commanded three of the 20th century's historic airlifts: the World War II cargo transport over the Himalayan "Hump" from India to China, the massive 1948-49 Berlin operation that moved 13,000 tons a day of coal and food to the Soviet-blockaded city, and the Korean War's Combat Cargo Command that air-dropped supplies to U.S. troops trapped in North Korea by the Chinese...
...largest remaining synfuels project also looks a bit wobbly. That is the $2.1 billion, 750-employee Great Plains venture to extract synthetic gas from coal near Beulah, N. Dak. Great Plains, owned by five energy and utility firms, had planned to charge up to $10 per 1,000 cu. ft. of gas. But the facility, currently 70% complete, could charge no more than $6.25 per 1,000 cu. ft. because of the fall in fuel-oil prices, to which the gas rates are pegged. At those prices, Great Plains looks like a terrible investment for its owners. They are turning...