Word: coal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground. Chillán, hardest hit, looked from the air like a mammoth anthill overturned. Its church spires and jagged masonry protruded through the debris. Its surviving residents scrabbled in the ruins for the dead and injured. In the countryside, wide fissures rent the fields, irrigation canals were broken, coal mines caved...
...Eugene Houdry was the fils in Houdry & Fils, Parisian steelmakers. His hobby was auto racing. One day a racing driver excitedly showed him a bottle of gasoline which he said a pharmacist in Nice had derived from lignite ("brown coal"). France, which has lignite but little petroleum, was then in the throes of an oil-shortage scare, and 29-year-old Eugene Houdry caught the driver's excitement...
...Sound and the Fury, which Publisher Harrison Smith assured him would not sell. He had married Mrs. Estelle Oldham Franklin, an Oxford girl who had two children by a previous marriage. To make money he wrote a horror story, Sanctuary. It was rejected, too. He got a job shoveling coal at the Oxford power plant for $100 a month, working from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. From midnight until 4 a. m. he wrote, using an upturned wheelbarrow for a desk. On it he wrote As I Lay Dying, rewrote Sanctuary, laid out his series of connected novels...
...money-mad world loses none of its effectiveness on the screen. For once Hollywood has cast aside its grandiose ideas of lavish staging effects and breath-taking landscape panoramas to present a simple and convincing portrait of medical life. Particularly effective are the scenes in the Welsh coal mines and rustic country clinics. Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell head a fine cast, among whom Ralph Richardson as the cynical, rum-consuming Denny is outstanding...
Propaganda Men. The propaganda content in this tonnage of Government publicity usually runs at the proportion of less than one gram per pound. Occasionally it assays much higher. Last February the Bituminous Coal Commission issued one famous release in which a Cleveland city official was described as "coloring deeply" when replying to a Commissioner's question at a hearing. Washington correspondents stirred up such a row that the author of the release was fired...