Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tshombe's political strength lies with the Luanda tribe, now isolated in the new Lualaba province, his chances might be slim. Though Tshombe still has considerable popularity in Katanga, the Europeans there want no more adventures, and the flourishing Union Miniere asks only that it be allowed to mine copper undisturbed and continue earning $260 million a year for the Congo-more than twice the export revenue of the rest of the country. The secessionist spirit seems to be dying. Says one of Tshombe's old ministers: "We were puppets protecting European interests, and now nobody wants...
Flute & Toy Soldiers. Next, Love battled the railroads, whose rates on coal had risen so high that coal cost 8? a ton more to haul than to mine. Consol built a 108-mile pipeline across Ohio to a Cleveland electric plant, shipped a slurry of coal and water at $1 a ton less than railroad rates. The Eastern railroads got the hint, and last March dropped their coal rates by one-third (TIME, April...
...brothers, sisters, cousins and nephews who are at the center of the dynastic Klabin clan completely own a group of ten companies that mine minerals, raise cattle, grow coffee and manufacture paper, tiles and textiles. They have just completed a $30 million plant expansion that will more than double their newsprint capacity to 135,000 tons, reduce Brazil's paper imports by a third. Hoping to further Brazil's development and the family fortune simultaneously, they plan to build two new plants to make paper and tile as soon as Brazil's runaway inflation slows down...
...help of a 40-m.p.h. wind in the Dallas Civitan Open in 1960, she actually overdrove the green on a 385-yd. hole. "I can outhit many men-much to their embarrassment," says Mickey gaily. "They think they are pitting their masculinity against my femininity, their strength against mine. That's foolish. They aren't competing with my strength; they're competing with the efficiency of my swing...
...includes a taste for doxies and fancy barbers. Papa Cobb takes it pretty hard, but his highest loyalty is to his stomach. Peering into the refrigerator, he recoils at the sight of all the foil-wrapped leftovers, cries: "This ain't an icebox, it's an aluminum mine...