Word: consolation
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...going up. Last week Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., biggest U.S. independent producer, demonstrated a radical new way to cut shipping costs. On an experimental basis, it sent the first coal through a 108-mile, $15 million pipeline designed to carry 1,300,000 tons of coal annually from Pitt Consol's strip mine at Georgetown, Ohio to the big Eastlake steam electric plant of the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. The coal is pulverized and mixed with water to form a slurry, which six giant pumps move along at about 3½ m.p.h. At Cleveland, a $2,500,000 plant...