Word: coal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friends whom lonely Lawyer Harris called to him were Sylvester Schiele, coal; Gustavus Loehr, mining; Harry Ruggles, printing. They sat long and late comparing notes, exchanging experiences. Then they invited 15 or 20 men, each from a different profession to minimize "shop talk," broaden the conversation and recruit "a further idea or a dynamic force...
Lucky Men. The pageant began when Their Majesties arrived at Victoria Station, London, to await M. le Président. Round about stood, like seeming giants, the Foot Guards in their enormous, tall, bearskin hats. On prancing coal black horses sat stiffly the Horse Guards, clad in white buckskin breeches and silver-plated body armor. Across the Royal Waiting Room and down the platform was spread a great crimson carpet...
During the past year we have bought about 8,000 chairs, 2000 beds and mattresses, 2500 desks, 2000 chiffoniers, $18,000 worth of crockery for the dining halls, $12000 worth of silverware, $30000 worth of coal, $120,000 worth of fuel oil, besides chemicals, scientific apparatus, hospital supplies, microscopes, stereopticans and moving-picture machines, and violet ray lamps and apparatus...
...select rugs over the telephone to match a wall paper we have not seen. We place a contract for 10,000 tons of coal in the morning, and spend an hour over a pound of tacks to match a sample in the afternoon...
Perhaps one of the most pleasing aspects of this work is the relations formed with Harvard graduates. We want information, prices, forecasts. Is coal going up or down? How about oil? Where can we buy this or that? Where are the trade customs and agreements? We must have advice on legal or other points. We have only to ask a graduate, tell him that the information is for Harvard, and every door is opened for us, every book is at our disposal, and even the busiest official seems glad to interrupt his work and give us all the time...