Word: coals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger of sinking? Why had one man been left aboard, left for dead in the No. 4 hold? Who had set fire to the radio shack, and blown a hole in the hull, just above the water line, with dynamite? Who had hidden whose corpse in the coal bunker? Why had the Mary Deare made a mysterious unscheduled stopover at Rangoon? Why did the last man aboard insist on steering her straight for the Channel rocks...
From Nose Cones. Most of the electricity generated by the system comes from the electrodes, but waste heat can be harnessed to drive a conventional turbogenerator, adding importantly to the system's efficiency. Overall, Avco scientists estimate that a 450,000-kw. coal-fired MHD generator will produce electricity with the sensational thermal efficiency of 55%. The best that conventional plants...
...identical five-room company houses. Sam's father worked as little as one day a week in the mines, often had to queue up for free flour. The specter of the mines and a sooty lifetime behind a No. 3 shovel hung over all the boys in the coal country. Sam decided early that he was going to finish high school, no matter what, and there he found football. When Sam made the Class-B all-state team as a 200-lb. tackle for Farmington High School, Coach Art ("Pappy") Lewis of West Virginia University began dropping...
What the new league needs far more than big talk is big players like Linebacker Sam Huff. Down in Consol No. 9, back in Farmington, W. Va., a monster engine pulls loads of coal out of the mine, and still has enough power left over to do half a dozen other jobs. Nickname of the engine: the Sam Huff Special. "By jingo," says the proud father of the finest linebacker in the world, "it pulls an awful load...
...Menzies' Liberal government was to ensure peace with Australia's strike-inclined unions. Under the Labor government that preceded Menzies' Liberals, Australia's key unions, then mainly Red-dominated, all but paralyzed the nation by strikes. The situation became so bad during a Red-organized coal strike that the government ordered army troops to man the mines...