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Geologists say that coal has the property of extracting germanium from water or gases that come in contact with it. For this reason, the top and bottom six inches of the seam generally contain the most germanium. Since the pure metal sells for about $350 a pound, a strike of rich germanium-coal would prove valuable...
...recent years it has brought a creeping fear: What if the supply of sulphur should run out? As the mine shaft plunged deeper and deeper into the earth, even Cabernardi's Communists went regularly to the little parish church to pray to St. Barbara that the seam might last forever...
...haughty caterer (Leo G. Carroll) sniffs through Tracy's suburban home, orders it thoroughly revamped for the reception. Tracy's 20-year-old cutaway splits a seam. A lovers' quarrel threatens briefly to end the whole show. The wedding rehearsal turns into bedlam. Then comes the ceremony itself and the ultimate chaos-the reception. Tossed about in a maelstrom of thirsty guests and burdened with such undignified chores as untangling traffic jams out front, Tracy cannot find his daughter to say goodbye before she rushes off on her honeymoon. Finally he is alone and at peace with...
Pittsburgh in the 20th Century was a noisy, grimy giant sprawled across a coal seam, gobbling up ore from Mesabi and spewing out molten steel. It squatted, black and ugly, on the hills between the Allegheny and the Monongahela, trailing mill towns up & down its river valleys. It dug the coal and fed it into fiery furnaces, and strewed the mountainous offal of its furnaces across its landscape...
...scorned seam of Tory tradition, Britain's National Coal Board proudly mined itself a coat of arms. Henceforth all the board's letters and documents will bear a twin row of black triangles (representing coal), flanked by British lions, each shouldering a sun (heat & light...