Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lies just around the corner. When the 165,000 strikers went out on Dec. 6, most commercial customers had three-month stockpiles of coal, which they thought would be ample. Now the utilities and the industries that are dependent on coal are running low in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee and Pennsylvania. Other states that face imminent shortages are Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Michigan. These states require at least 60,000 megawatts of power constantly, and to get it, they burn 3 million tons of coal each week. Even if the strike were to end immediately, it would take 30 days...
...lengthening of the strike increased the chances of violence. Miners have already stopped some coal headed for utilities from non-union mines. Dozens of coal trucks have been forced at gunpoint to dump their loads. Towboats hauling coal barges up Pennsylvania's Monongahela River had to abandon operations when they were fired on by miners. "I don't like to see anyone suffer," says Jim Elias, 50, a miner in Greene County, Pa. "But we've got to get a decent contract somehow. I'm not the kind to fire a shot or throw a rock...
...when this dame wanders in. Real sweet, she was, with coal dust in her long blonde hair and a crumpled bus ticket in her fist. "Scranton," she sighed by way of explanation, in a voice that trailed off like the Doppler effect of a passing 18-wheeler on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. I poured her a stiff one, and she poured me her story: "I have this terrific manuscript, but please don't ask how I got it, and I just have to get into the newspapers before they do." "They?" "The syndicate." "Which one?" "The New York Times Syndicate...
Since the Tigers had already fallen twice this season to the Pennsylvania squad that dribbled into Cambridge Saturday night, there was no reason to expect Harvard to give the Quakers a good ballgame. Let alone win it, which, to everyone' surprise, the Crimson...
...those incadescent moments in sports. Jubilation reigned supreme at the IAB Saturday night as Harvard's Cinderella cagers and a capacity crowd of 1500 savored every second of the Crimson's radiant 93-87 win over perennial Ivy League powerhouse Pennsylvania...