Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oklahoma-based Kerr-McGee Coal Corp. is clearing a 3,000-acre site on both sides of Highway 34, barely a mile east of Galatia, for a new deep-shaft mine. The company plans to invest $185 million in the venture, which will employ up to 700 miners-all nonunion. Many towns would greet such an investment with enthusiasm. Galatia...
...Force major general, flew to Galatia from corporate headquarters in Oklahoma City and ordered work resumed. The chain-link fence has been rebuilt. A score of bright yellow bulldozers, scrapers and earthmovers are growling back and forth, tossing up giant dust clouds as they level the site for shaft sinking. At night, the construction equipment is drawn up in a cluster under floodlights, covered-wagon style, for protection against sabotage. Admits Randolph: "We expected some resistance in Galatia, but its intensity at this early stage surprised us. Still, our policy remains to encourage nonunion operation-by persuasion, not coercion...
...that would make Ebla a historic find came at the end of that month. The team located a wall of a small palace room and sank a shaft into its west corner. Matthiae peered down-and saw the most significant library of the ancient world ever found. "My first impression," he says, "was that I was looking at a sea of clay tablets." Most were in piles on the floor where they had crashed down as the city was sacked in 2250 B.C. Ironically, the fire of the Akkadian conquerers ensured that the tablets would survive the passage of centuries...
...paying guests can help them cope with soaring fuel bills and real estate taxes. Most B & Bs are situated in small towns or country resorts, but they are also to be found in cities from Philadelphia to San Diego and at prices far below those of even an air-shaft room at a major hotel...
...program. The net effect, charged Brown, is that of a "shell game" that "shifts the burden of federal cutbacks to state and local government." Bill Krause, aide to Wisconsin's Dreyfus, was even blunter: "We aren't getting more powers, just more bills. Shift and shaft...