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...actually refuse to speak with students if he is concentrating on business commitment. This problem becomes serious especially when a professor is doing research in a field not related to his academic research. Albert recalls one extreme case concerning a chemistry professor who wrote the financial books for a coal company...
Short began life there in 1924, the son of a black coal miner in Danville, Ill. He taught himself to play the piano when he was three or four, and when he was eleven, he went touring the country as the Miniature King of Swing. The king was soon deposed, however. Bookings became scarce after a couple of years, and Bobby returned to Danville to finish high school. After that, it was back to the piano and the saloons of Chicago, and then Los Angeles, where he stayed, off and on, for more than a decade. He made one brief...
...railroads are counting on future profits from a boom in coal transport now that nations around the world are seeking a substitute for high-priced oil. But the U.S. will never fulfill its potential as a coal exporter until action is taken to upgrade and expand its ports...
Hampton Roads, Va., is the nation's busiest coal port and also its most notorious bottleneck. On an average day before the start of the current coal miners' strike, an armada of 150 ships was anchored offshore. Reason: the two loading terminals are so inadequate that the colliers usually must wait in line a month or more to pick up their cargoes...
...Coal companies are planning to build new terminals at Hampton Roads and other ports, but a more serious problem will remain. No Eastern or Gulf Coast harbor is deep enough to accommodate so-called supercolliers: giant vessels that can carry more than 125,000 tons of coal, which is at least twice the load of standard ships. Many American ports, including Hampton Roads, Baltimore, New Orleans and Mobile, need to be dredged to the 55-ft. depth required by the supercolliers. But congressional appropriations for these projects have been held up for years, while lawmakers wrangle about which port should...