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...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...
...them were actually producing electricity last week because of assorted glitches. Fifty-nine more are in the works, 27 of which may open this year or next. By the end of 1983, nuclear energy will surpass water power and natural gas and move into second place, behind coal, as a generator of electricity in the U.S. Last year nuclear generators produced 12.5% of the nation's electricity. But that is far below the 25% that had been predicted by nuclear proponents in the 1950s and '60s. By the year 2000, some of those prophets were saying then, half...
...bedeviled relentlessly by escalating costs. Because of environmental suits, high interest rates and construction delays, the cost of power from nuclear reactors went up so rapidly in recent years that, according to opponents of the new technology, by 1976 it was possible to produce cheaper energy from a new coal plant than from a new nuclear plant. Industry defenders contend, however, that power from nuclear plants is still less expensive overall: 2.7? per kwh, vs. 3.2? from coal-fired plants and 6.9? from oil. Detractors argue that the statistics give unfair weight to ultracheap power from old nuclear plants...