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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ALLAN W. BETTS...
...W. W. GOULD...
...W. R. GEDDES
Nasty Job. The first trenches will connect stripped-out areas and so make a perimeter beyond which the fire cannot spread. Then the draglines will work in ward, digging both burning and nonburn-ing coal from the whole 130 acres. Says Mining Engineer Robert W. Bell, consultant to the Carbondale Redevelopment Authority: "A nasty job-rather dangerous." While working on burning coal, the dragline operators will be only the length of their booms (60 to 90 ft.) away from the hot stuff. Each scoopful will be dumped on high ground and sprayed with water. In many places the hot surface...
...quarter were the second best in history for that period (best: igss's $3.4 billion). G.M.'s first-half earnings climbed to $2.08 per share, v. $1.17 in the same period last year. Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed how well it had stepped up efficiency under President Mark W. Cresap Jr., raised second-quarter earnings to a record $1.12 per share, through operating economies that overcame lower sales. For the first half, Westinghouse earned $1.92 per share, v. $1.70 last year. Cresap and Westinghouse Chairman Gwilym A. Price forecast increases in sales and new orders during the second half...