Word: coal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the foregoing declaration by the Supreme Court of the U. S., and the judicial action based upon that rudimentary statement of public ethics, seriously disturbed the National Labor Relations Board, potentially affected the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Bituminous Coal Commission, many another quasi-judicial Federal agency...
Like all men, coal miners expect to die some day. Unlike all men, coal miners also expect that an abnormally high proportion of their number will not die in bed.* Last week death came to 45 miners caught by an explosion of natural gas and rock dust in the Red Jacket Coal Co. mine near Grundy, in southwestern Virginia...
Coketown. Lewis Mumford's indictment of the "paleotechnic" (coal & iron industrial) age concentrates the eloquence of generations of reformers, the enlightenment of generations of thinkers, besides his own exceptional talents for raking up the coals. For the social chaos and loss of architectural form which overcame the city during the 18th and 19th Centuries the only excuse was the speed of industrial expansion and the colossal rise in the population of Europe. "It was a period of vast urban improvisation: makeshift piled upon makeshift. . . . Until 1838 neither Manchester nor Birmingham even functioned politically as incorporated boroughs: they were...
...last week there was evidence of little but stagnation. Steel production rose from 33% to 35% of capacity, highest point since November. Car loadings rose a mite in expectation of the new rates. But lumber output was off 6% for the week, power production 2%, oil production 0.8%, soft coal 8%. Bank clearings were at a new low since 1934 but gold was pouring into the country at a rate which showed that the rest of the world still thinks the U. S. the safest place to cache its valuables. The stock market proceeded to slip from...
...down 19%. In the furniture manufacturing area near Albany, citizens felt the dearth of new furniture buying and due to that and other causes trade fell 15%. Florida's dwindling tourist influx was offset by a flock of new paper mills to keep the decline to 18%. Birmingham coal and iron mines were less active. Cotton mills in Georgia and the Carolinas, which were working overtime year ago, were generally on part time. In Southern California the 13% slump was largely explained by dwindling cinema revenues. Rest of the far West was better off except for the cattle ranching...