Word: coal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have within 50 miles of either Seattle or Tacoma hundreds of millions of tons of coking coal with stronger coking properties than any coal in either Indiana, Ohio or Illinois, and just as good as the coking coal of Pennsylvania only a little higher in ash, but for the electrometallurgical process a little more ash does not interfere with the processing...
...position necessitated, Germany continued the more aggressive. Last fortnight one of her reconnaissance planes appeared for the first time over Britain's industrial Midlands, flying low and streaking away from anti-aircraft and pursuit after traversing Manchester (textiles), Merseyside (ship-building), and North Wales (coal). Last week more Nazis penetrated Kent and Essex, passing close to London, some of them apparently to divert attention from mine-laying seaplanes at the mouth of the Thames. Repeated reconnaissance in the North culminated with a concentrated bomber flight which descended upon a detachment of the British Home Fleet somewhere near the Shetland...
...morning recess (10:30), the children took their dinner pails out of closets, munched fruit and passed around popcorn They also put potatoes in the stove to cook for lunch. Johnny went out to the well to fetch water and Ralph to the shed for coal (Miss Campbell lets her boys take turns at these chores, pays them 15? week.) Then boys & girls went to play kickball (like baseball but played with a football) in the yard...
...spite of the temporary coal boom which war produced, anthracite ran into one of its characteristic price wars, and bituminous coal production, down 6% from the 10,450,000-ton peak hit week ended Oct. 26, was apparently headed back down to a 9,000,000-ton weekly rate...
Once there was a little man in a long black coat who roamed the hard-coal fields of Pennsylvania, doing mighty deeds for the United Mine Workers of America. He was John Mitchell, and quite a boy. At 28, he was president of the union; at 32 (in 1902), he led the strike which won an eight-hour day in the coal fields. Soft-coal miners voted him out of office in 1908, eventually put John Llewellyn Lewis in John Mitchell's place. But since John Mitchell died in 1919, he rather than John Lewis has been the sainted...