Word: coal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill presented his last budget (TIME, May 3), Great Britain was on the verge of her greatest industrial travail of the present century, the vast and paralyzing general strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) and the long drawn out nagging coal strike which began at the same time and dwindled to a close TIME, Nov. 29) without ever being formally "settled." What effect have these two stupendous, unprecedented strikes had on the exchequer? How deep must British taxpayers dig into their pockets this coming twelvemonth to pay the piper because 6,000,000 workers...
...schoolteachers, came of an evening to sew costumes, paint scenery or strut the boards, to a resident repertory company in which there is still work for all comers but big roles only for the very, very proficient amateur, be she pretty co-ed from Western Reserve University or temperamental coal baroness. It is still a non-profit-making community theatre, but with increased dramatic proficiency, the community interested has become increasingly specialized-almost a guild of onlookers to watch the guild of craftsmen...
...hours, his two dogs watched William Joyce, aged 4, of Scranton, Pa., sinking into a pile of culm (coal refuse). When William was up to his neck in culm, the dogs looked at each other knowingly, scampered away, tugged at a workman's coat. Workman and dogs sped back to the culm. "Take the mud out of my eyes," said William when rescued...
...Iceman. Twenty-one years ago one Samuel Rubel, immigrant from Riga (Latvia), peddled ice in Brooklyn. Now he is president of Rubel Coal & Ice Co. and worth $25,000,000. But withal he is not a nice man, declared sundry petty ice peddlers, when Mr. Rubel tried to freeze them out of business the past year by giving free ice to their customers. For that, the Kings County grand jury last week indicted him, and 28 people sued him for damages...
...HECKSCHER DENIES HOUSING PLAN IS RED" papers said. August Heckscher, German-American philanthropist, made his millions in minerals, railroads, coal and real estate, he spends them on little children. Last week he turned his efforts to tired mothers and disabled fathers, charged the State with the responsibility of keeping them in adequate homes. He said: "This is not communism. I seek no redistribution of wealth. Let every man and woman, so long as they are honest and play the game, accumulate the wealth that seems to mean so much to them. But let them be held, through taxation, to contribute...