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Beckley (pop 20.492) sits in the southern coal-mining region of West Virginia, "not exactly desolate, but certainly way out in nowhere." Klingensmith's family has lived in the Mountain State since the 1840s, but they're not hillbillies--Charles is the third generation to earn a Harvard degree, and his father is a thoracic surgeon. Not snobs, either, though--the Klingensmith home may have been an "oasts of civility," but its younger members were taught "a deep appreciation for the people who lived around us and for fellow West Virginians...
Aside from Union's efforts, the only other major synthetic-fuels project in the U.S. is the partially completed $2.1 billion Great Plains Coal Gasification Project near Beulah, N. Dak. The plant is scheduled to produce 125 million cu. ft. of high-quality natural gas daily, from 14,000 tons of coal, by December...
...March 31, 1981, there were 63 applications from a range of sponsors including energy companies, municipalities and utilities for federal support of synfuels projects, but the Administration whittled them back to only five. They are two coal-liquefication plants in Kentucky and Wyoming, a methanol conversion plant in North Carolina, a coal-gasification facility in Memphis and a heavy-oil upgrading project in California...
Computerized inventory control has proved especially helpful to heavy industries like steelmaking. More than simply keeping track of large stockpiles of raw materials, such as iron ore and coking coal, steel firms also have to make sure that stocks of finished goods, ranging from rolled steel to ingots, sheet metal, cable and wire, are neither too large nor too small for projected demand. Says Albert E. Martz, a general manager for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh (1981 sales: $4.7 billion): "As a result of higher interest rates, we are trying to run leaner and operate closer to the bone...
...hardly accidental that J.B.'s salvation was manifested in the return of his wife to "blow on the coal of the heart." MacLeish had been married since 1916 to Ada Hitchcock, his childhood sweetheart in Glencoe, Ill. (She survives him, as do two children, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.) Ada also dominates MacLeish's last book of poems, The Wild Old Wicked Man (1968). "Ah, but a good wife!" he wrote. "To lie late in a warm bed/ (warm where she was), with your life/ suspended like a music in the head...