Word: coale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until an illiterate Russian coal miner named Alexei Stakhanov developed the "speedup" technique which made him dear to Five-Year Plan officials and brought orders from Joseph Stalin that workers throughout Russia must increase their output (TIME, Dec. 16), the most favored Soviet class was the Young Communists for whom nothing in Russia was supposed to be too good...
...educational map has been the work of Dr. Conwell's successor, tall, bronzed Charles Ezra Beury (pronounced "Beery"). Like his neighbor. Dr. Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Beury was a banker before he became a college president. A son of the rich, coal-operating Beurys for whom Beury, W. Va., is named, Charles Ezra Beury graduated from Princeton in 1903. When he received a law degree from Harvard three years later it was in absentia because that day he was marrying the Lutheran pastor's daughter in his native Shamokin, Pa. His stock joke...
...exaggeration. Samuel Insull receives $21,000 per year in pensions from his old Chicago operating companies. *Similar discrepancies exist in the prices of old securities and reorganization securities of Baldwin Locomotive and Burns Bros., big Eastern Coal distributor...
...most important fields opened up by the new technique is the detailed study of the plant life involved in the formation of anthracite coal and petrified woods. Never before have botanists been able to secure satisfactory microscopic specimens from these hard rocks. Mr. Darrah has succeeded in making fossil peals of both coal and petrified woods, among them specimens containing the remains of pollen grains more than 200,000,000 years old from a coal deposit in Illinois...
...Hecksher Foundation for Children launched a drive for winter relief funds in New York City with a poem composed by chipper, white-bearded Philanthropist August Hecksher, 87. Excerpt: The stars, the stars shine brighter, Search thine immortal soul, Thy heart, thy heart beats lighter, What first we need is - COAL. In the weekly newspaper of Doom, The Netherlands, Wilhelm von Hohenzollern inserted an advertisement thanking the world Press for its interest in his 77th birthday...