Word: coal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coal Act obliges the private owners of all coal mining royalties to sell these out to the State, as of July 1942, for a total compensation of ?66,450,000 ($332,250,000). This does not nationalize the coal industry (since private interests will continue to operate the mines, paying royalties to the State), but means a mighty stride toward Nationalization...
...been a paid speaker for the Anti-Saloon League, but in 1928, when drink returned to popularity, he stumped for Al Smith, later helped write the 21st (Repeal) Amendment. Now he even takes a toddy himself. Labor knows him as one of its early champions, but he voted for coal and oil tariffs before the New Deal made Business unfashionable...
...abolishing 130 boards and commissions, consolidating 119 divisions into 22, including a new Department of Welfare. Aided by largesse from Washington, he balanced his budget, attacked and refunded the $28,000,000 State debt so that next year it will be all gone. He ended company police in the coal mines, cleaned up old State prisons. He got Kentucky to ratify the Child Labor amendment to the U. S. Constitution...
...addition to the South's three great natural resources - cotton, coal, iron - shown in map, are its forests, its cheap labor, found everywhere. Extent of forests is implied by the pulp mills. Small figures under the symbols for pulp and textile mills represent the number of important mills in each State. Those under the cigarets equal total production in 1936 (latest figure...
Pennsylvania Railroad Co., which gets fat freight income from coal, asserted that State industries might be robbed of much-needed revenue. Steelman Wolcott replied that he bought only 55,000 tons of Pennsylvania coal a year, anyway (plus 20,000 tons from West Virginia), would continue doing so-unless continued losses forced him to close the plant. Coatesville townsfolk, about 90% of whom depend on Lukens for a living, backed his plea and last week Pennsylvania's Public Utility Commission decided Lukens could buy its gas direct from Columbia's subsidiary. Henceforth, instead of the 20,000 tons...