Word: coal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter wheat and feed to the starving livestock. The Battaglia del Grano, the Wheat Battle, of 1938 is lost. Three-fourths of Italy's bread requirements will have to be bought abroad with "old, the gold wrung from meagre exports and the tourist trade, the gold earmarked for coal, oil, steel, copper, nickel, tin -for a thousand commodities Italy lacks and must have to swagger and grab and fight like a great power...
...discovery from Brooklyn, is at times a bit annoying with her studied cuteness, while George Barbier plays his role as the great Khan in a manner more reminiscent of a genial Tammany district leader that the fierce and terrifying warrior of ancient China. Gary Cooper, as Marco Polo, collects coal, fireworks, and "spaghet" to introduce to Venice and he also teaches the lovely princess to kiss. She loves...
LOUIS LAVITT The Rockville Grain & Coal Co. Rockville, Conn...
...directly; mechanical (concentrating the rays with parabolic reflectors); electrical (using photoelectric cells to convert light energy into electricity); chemical (imitating the natural photosynthesis of plants). Since plants themselves store solar energy, there is also the possibility of using plants themselves for fuel-e.g., powdered cornstalks instead of powdered coal. Last year sun-minded Mr. Cabot gave Harvard $615,773 for a long-range research program to increase the rate at which plants store solar energy (TIME, June...
Anna Christie (Thurs. 10 p.m.. NBC-Blue). Eugene O'Neill's coal-barge classic revived in a short version for the Pulitzer Prize radio series...