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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...
Scargill insisted that the purpose of his Paris trip was merely to consult with French unionists and denied that the mineworkers were seeking money from Gaddafi to support their 35-week strike against Britain's national ized coal industry. Nonetheless Scargill's Libyan connection, revealed seven months after a British policewoman was killed by shots fired from Libya's London embassy, sparked a public outcry. "It is dreadful that this union would approach a terrorist country for help," said Ted MacKay, head of the mineworkers' North Wales branch. Declared Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock...
...publicity blurbs boast. The director of Jaws and E.T. has bought the movie rights for a pot of money. Surely, by the way, this explains the dual authorship. The story's weight and complexity are not such that it is necessary to have one author shoveling coal while the other steers. But the combined constituencies of King (Pet Sematary) and Straub (Ghost Story) are a big part of what Spielberg paid...