Word: coal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unemployed has increased during the past month from 671,000 to 1,030,000, making 70% more out-of-work than in 1927; and 2) "The five weeks shut down in the steel industry, which came to an end early in December, caused serious dislocations in the iron, steel, coal and coke trades...
...whether a practical joke or a bit of black magic, the reader can best decide. Whatever it may have been, the President's remedy was masterly. Emptying his powder horn on the Hall floor, he solemnly exorcised the Evil One, and then, touching off the combustibles with a live coal, literally blew the Devil out of Harvard College...
...Great Britain's registered workpeople were unemployed; but the figure crept up to 11.8 last November, and to 12.2 as a bleak New Year came. Correspondents found out what this means in terms of misery, last week, when they went out to Wales and visited the great coal properties of Viscountess Rhondda, admittedly one of the most humane and generous coal operators in the Empire. Appalling was too mild a word for conditions seen...
Throughout the week starving British coal miners were cheered by but one fact, the stupendous response of the British public to a radio appeal made by Edward of Wales, on Christmas Day, for contributions to relieve the miners.* Since His Royal Highness spoke more than ?320,000 ($1,555,000) directly elicited by his words has poured in. For every pound Sterling contributed the Treasury stands pledged by Parliament to contribute a matching pound. Even with all this stop-gap and state charity, however, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin seems impotent to devise a constructive scheme which will really stem...
...Christmas mass. It was composed by Edwin Gardner, local street cleaner, who, despite no technical knowledge of music, took inspiration from the noises of the street, worked out melodies on a wheezy home organ and turned out a mass that last week made him hero of the Rhondda coal district...