Word: unstruck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time to spare. Coal stockpiles in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Michigan had dwindled dangerously. Normally, the utilities in those states use 3 million tons of coal a week during the winter. Lately they have been receiving a weekly average of 300,000 tons from unstruck mines...
...that could never net as much as originally projected. In November, the last tycoon of old Hollywood, Jack Warner, retired from the studio bearing his name. But even before his formal send-off (on Sound Stage No. 7, where the "Great Hall" set from Camelot is still unstruck), 45 of Warner's 62 pending projects were unceremoniously jettisoned. In the old days, a major studio would shoot as many as 50 pictures a year. In 1970, the average will be closer...