Word: coal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARLAN, Ky.--Coal mining operations were resumed in scattered sections of Harlan County today under the watchful eyes of heavily armed National Guardsmen who clashed twice with United Mine Workers pickets but otherwise held violence to a minimum...
Meantime, baffled John Public continued to burn 1,000,000 tons of coal a day. At Norfolk, whence much coal is transshipped by water to eastern cities, bunkers were nearly empty. Manhattan subways reduced service to the point where trains at peak hours carried four instead of the usual three passengers per seat. When all but a few A. F. of L. and non-union mines shut down last week, less than a month's supply for the U. S. remained aboveground, and much of that was hoarded by big users. Madam Secretary squeaked in Washington...
...laid up 75 slick, oil-toting tubs. Purpose: to persuade the lines to increase wages and prefer union men for jobs. Because 14 other companies were willing to dicker, their tankers continued to run without hindrance and the Atlantic Seaboard faced no oil shortage comparable to that threatening in coal (see p. 18). For most people, a surprising piece of strike news was that tankers comprise 24% of the U. S. Merchant Marine. Standard Oil of New Jersey with 72 ships (total cost about $70,000,000) operates 17% of U. S. tankers, with its foreign fleets controls...
...settled after emigrating from Germany. He studied astronomy at Kharkov's university, served in the Russian Army in the World War, fought on the Turkish front. He fought with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks, fled to Constantinople after the White Russian collapse. While hiding in a coal bunker he found a wad of Imperial Russian banknotes which would have made him rich a few years before but were then worthless. In Turkey, the young scientist worked for a while as a woodchopper in the Sultan's forest, was toting bricks on a construction job when a letter...
This plea, crooned in a soft baritone over the twanging of a cracked and patched guitar, once swayed Texas' Governor Pat Morris Neff into granting a pardon to the coal-black, swampland Negro who sang it. The Negro, Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter, self-styled "King of de twelve-string guitar players of de worl'," had been sentenced seven years before for murdering another Negro in a brawl over a woman. Out of jail, Lead Belly combined his career of gin, women and song with a job in a Houston Buick agency. Five years later, in 1930, Lead Belly...