Word: coalmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miners Rebel. A problem arose when the government persuaded a group of coalmen to get together this year to form Ruhrkohle, A.G., a state-funded giant that aims eventually to mine 85% of the Ruhr's coal. Everybody wanted the Rossenray in the combine mine-but who would pay for Arndt's allowance? Naturally, the combine would have to do so, insisted Günther Vogelsang, the chairman of the executive board of the Krupp empire, who has brought the company back from the brink of bankruptcy in 1967 to the point where it now expects a profit...
Kick from Fossils. Despite atomic inroads, the fossil fuels have a lot of kick left. Battling to save the market they have long dominated, coalmen have turned to unit trains, automated mining equipment, and mine-mouth generating plants transmitting power across huge distances via super-high-voltage lines. Nuclear plants remain too costly for small utility companies or sparsely populated regions. In such Southwestern states as Texas, utility men insist that they will rely on cheap natural gas for years. With the total U.S. demand for electricity doubling every decade, even General Electric figures that coal consumption in U.S. power...
Beer & Mine. While Miller's actions have benefited Australian shipbuilders, sailors and coalmen, they will bring the greatest return to R. W. Miller, Ltd., a holding company with assets of $29 million. It owns nine coal mines, fleets of colliers and trucks, 42 hotels, an engineering firm, a brewery (Millers Beer), and an insurance company. Miller will use his tanker profits to underwrite coal costs, but he apparently has no fears for the future of the industry. Next March, in New South Wales, R. W. Miller, Ltd. will inaugurate its newest enterprise: another coal mine...
...government was reluctant to put import quotas on oil, as the coalmen wish, but tried to cool the crisis by giving the mines until Dec. 31, 1966 'beyond two crucial elections-to begin phasing out. Though miners are reluctant to leave their trade and their homes, they should have no trouble getting new work. In prosperous Germany, jobs are still going begging...