Word: consolingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...going up. Last week Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., biggest U.S. independent producer, demonstrated a radical new way to cut shipping costs. On an experimental basis, it sent the first coal through a 108-mile, $15 million pipeline designed to carry 1,300,000 tons of coal annually from Pitt Consol's strip mine at Georgetown, Ohio to the big Eastlake steam electric plant of the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. The coal is pulverized and mixed with water to form a slurry, which six giant pumps move along at about 3½ m.p.h. At Cleveland, a $2,500,000 plant...