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Word: bins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the anthracite miners have been working at top speed. Every available bin is being used for storage. The operators want plenty of coal on hand in preparation for a long strike. The miners have been glad to get extra pay to put aside for the payless strike days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COAL: Notes, Aug. 31, 1925 | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

Unfortunately this coal was costing sixty cents more per ton. Obviously, now that the voters minds were no longer preoccupied by the shadow of an empty bin, it was a propitious moment for Governors "Al" et al to despatch notes of protest. Their suggestion that she has been collecting from this monopoly, netting her fourteen cents a ton, is worthy of consideration. Also the demand that the operators themselves absorb a large part of the increase, in the light of such flexible profits recently betrayed in gasoline production, is excusable. Both of there are being considered by Governor Pinchot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARPING FOR COAL | 10/3/1923 | See Source »

...overflowing national wheat bin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Oct. 1, 1923 | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

...bin readin yer 8 moist Havurd poets for de foist time an on de level guy its de woist hokum I ever seen. Theys each one twict as bad as the rest. Its lousy dats the woid lousy. Over the radio from 33rd Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/22/1923 | See Source »

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