Word: coal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their funds. Hospitals have their clinics, supported usually by special endowments. In Manhattan the New York Cancer Institute, financed by the city, cares for impoverished cancer patients and studies the infinite variety of the disease. Last week the New York Cancer Association, headed by Sanders A. Wertheim, occasionally flamboyant coal dealer, announced that, to cooperate still further with the city Cancer Institute, it had bought the 27-story new Hudson Towers building and would fit it up as a $5,000,000 cancer clinic and research laboratory. Most of the 400 beds will be free. In the clinic capable...
Engineering is after all nothing but the application of science to a multitude of activities, such as; the gathering of minerals, oils, coal, and other natural products, and preparing them for use: the production of light, heat, and power from fuels and falling water; electric communications; the manufacture of chemicals, engines, machines, and innumerable commodities; railway, highway, and water transportation, and the construction and operation of numerous works for public safety and welfare. These enterprises require many kinds of talent in a great variety of duties, such as the planner, the builder the inventor, the investigator and the executive, requiring...
...organized, shutting out all but the most gorgeous spellbinders-Sundays and Sankeys, Moodies and McPhersons. Book peddlers had to learn the mass technique that flowered in Elbert Hubbard, Nelson Doubleday, E. Haldeman-Julius. All that remain of itinerant America are the scurrying hired droves who still "drum" everything from coal dust to white space; the glib "representatives" whose backslaps, hotel snoring and smoking-car anecdotes constitute an unmelodioua ground-buzz in the U. S. chorus...
When the Age-Herald was founded in 1870, Birmingham consisted of a cotton field crossed by two railroads. The first pages of the Age-Herald- described the first activities of the first promoters and engineers in the coal-and-iron-studded mountains that were to make Birmingham the first industrial city of the South. The Age-Herald gave its encouragement to the early iron-and-steelmongers who tried and failed, and tried again and again to make good metal from the sulphurous mountain ore and sell it profitably. It helped educate Birmingham out of its suicidal policy of selling cheap...
...newspapers in Mobile (the News-Item, evening; the Register, morning) as well as the Journal at Alabama's capital, Montgomery, bought the Age-Herald. It is said that he made the purchase to get backing for Mobile's $10,000,000 project in the Birmingham coal and steel district, that he sold it once his purpose was accomplished...