Word: chiefed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since U. S. lignite sells at from $2 to $3 a ton, exclusive of freight, the chief value of the new beds lies in the fact that they are in the immediate vicinity of the coal burning Canadian paper mills, the largest of which, the Kapuskasing, burns 500 tons of coal daily. With coal mines within sound of their buzz saws, Abitibi pulpmakers saw a chance to make newsprint still more cheaply for U. S. newspapers. Lignite, or "wood-coal," is geologically half way between turflike peat and smudgy bituminous coal. It is hard, looks like dirty brown slate, burns...
...site of the exploratory holes, provincial geologists claimed the entire district for the Ontario government, to prevent land speculating. Chief geologist W. S. Dyer estimated that the newly discovered lignite could be profitably marketed at from $5 to $6 a ton, exclusive of freight...
...except Yachtsman Marks. Only the fact that the Government was balanced on a single vote made possible a debacle which throws before Australian voters an issue mixed and muddled as completely as possible by Parliament. The one clean-cut way out would be a sweeping victory for the chief Opposition party (Labor), but few observers believed that possible, last week, because recent state elections have heavily favored the Nationalists. Gloomily, Australians faced the post-election prospect of another Nationalist Government stalemated by the feud between Hughes and Bruce...
Three Underdogs Up. The other three ministries vacated by Il Duce were all entrusted to men who held the corresponding under-secretaryships up to last week. General Pietro Gozzera, who served with Italy's Chief of Staff during the World War, becomes Minister of War. Rear Admiral Giuseppe Siriani, one of the most brilliant and successful seadogs in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12 gets the Marine Ministry. Finally the Ministry of Corporations goes to scintillant polemist and war veteran Giuseppe Bottai. As editor of Roma Futurista, Epoca and Giornale di Roma at various times...
...Wall Street Journal, announced that starting in October a Pacific Coast morning edition of the Journal would be published daily, ''in further recognition of the important financial growth of this territory." With head offices in San Francisco, the new Journal will be distributed to the chief Pacific Coast cities by airplane. Reports of Eastern business operations, stock transactions, mergers will, of course, be complete and detailed. But at least one-third of the news will concern itself wholly with things Pacific. Kenneth C. Hogate. vice president and general manager of Dow, Jones & Co., amplified upon the necessity...