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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile coal reserves diminished to a point where industry would begin to feel a real shortage within a fortnight. Railroads in mining areas, deprived of their biggest traffic, laid off men by thousands. Big B. & 0., in worse plight for its own coal supplies than most, began to "confiscate" (and of course pay for) coal consigned to other users over its lines. Pennsylvania's Legislature at Harrisburg formally begged the negotiators to come to terms. Here and there union pickets dumped coal trucked from non-union mines, and police began to worry that prolonged abstention might turn into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prolonged Abstention | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

After six days and nights of meetings, high Administration officials have drafted a general plan designed to keep the stock, foreign exchange and commodity markets operating in as orderly a manner as possible should hostilities begin...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...present ones, being Government-owned, cannot be bought. They will up the admission from $1.10 to a $2.20 top, move the show from Broadway's outskirts to pleasure-seeking 44th Street, opposite a wildly glaring Hot Mikado. For the Hot Mikado's Producer Michael Todd, sore to begin with because the Swing Mikado competed Against him, is now in a towering rage because he pleaded for the chance to take it over, was coldly dished in favor of Marolin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Under New Management | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Robert Moses, Commissioner of Parks for New York City, will speak this afternoon at the New Lecture Hall under the auspices of the Godkin Lecture Foundation. The talk, which is to be open to the public will begin at 4:00 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robert Moses Lectures Here This Afternoon on Governmental Affairs | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

Intended to cover the entire undergraduate body, a poll on the tutoring schools will begin today with members and candidates of the CRIMSON personally contacting every student in the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring School Poll | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

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