Word: coale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fiscal 1929. Receipts for fiscal 1937 he set at $5,654,000,000, more revenue than the U. S. Government ever had in any year except 1920. This huge expectation arose from the following estimates: $547,000,000 from the New Deal's social security, railway pension and Coal Act taxes; $547,000,000 from the New Deal's processing taxes;* $354,000,000 from customs; $2,103,000,000 from miscellaneous internal revenue (of which liquor taxes make up one quarter and tobacco taxes almost an equal share); $160,000,000 from minor sources...
...pensions, interest on the public debt, AAA, CCC-are to spend $2,586,000,000 in fiscal 1937 as compared to $1,083,000,000 in fiscal 1935. In part this represents more conservative bookkeeping, in part mounting expenses for administering new laws such as Social Security, the Guffey Coal Act, etc. Completely forgotten was the 1932 Democratic campaign promise to reduce the regular cost of Republican government by the striking figure of 25% (TIME...
...detonators used for blasting in mines. Last year a Baltimore woman, opening the door of a furnace, was struck in the breast by a copper pellet no bigger than a pinhead, which killed her. Investigation showed that the pellet had come from a detonator, no doubt left in the coal by a miner; that such detonators not only hurl a pellet at 6,000 ft. per sec. (three times the speed of a rifle bullet) but throw hundreds of minute shreds of copper, each able to penetrate nearly a millimetre of brass sheet. Pellets from detonators, directed into jars...
...respectable eight-room flat in the Negro section. There the season's outstanding new singer sat with her bad foot propped up, wrapped in a clumsy, grey woolen sock. That Philadelphia neighborhood represented home to Marian Anderson. When she was a child her father conducted a small coal & ice business nearby. Her mother went out to do white folks' housework. Marian's big day of the week was Sunday when, all stiffly starched, she went to sing at the Union Baptist Church. At 8 she was billed as "The Baby Contralto," sang Sing Me to Sleep with...
...coal dealers...