Word: coale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of Manhattan's Italian colony. In February 1934, Commissioner Corsi resigned to take over the even more difficult task of administering New York City's poor relief. Appointed as his successor was white-haired, bushy-browed Rudolph Reimer, a serious hard-working Democrat who had retired from the coal business...
...took place last week in the White House office. While proud Congressional parents stood at his elbow, the President baptized bill after bill with "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Not one important bill left by Congress did he veto. Proudest signing of the week was that of the Guffey Coal Bill attended by a host of Congressional godfathers, watched over by John L. Lewis and other officers of the United Mine Workers and followed at once by 1) steps to call off the coal strike scheduled for Sept. 24 and 2) a suit filed by Carter Coal Co. of Washington...
...must invest in Government bonds all undistributed profits; and the State assumes a virtual trade monopoly by decreeing that nonwar purchases are in every case subordinated to those fulfilling war needs. Before Dec. 31, 1937 all Italian motor vehicles must be converted to burn substitute fuels, such as coal gas distilled en route from charcoal by the Fiat system. Two days after the Cabinet meeting Italian motorists found that the price of gasoline had doubled to 87? per gal. Only cheerful sound from the Cabinet board was an announcement that "particularly abundant wheat and rice" crops ensure Italians plenty...
Smokeless Coal. The annual U. S. loss due to smoke is put at $500,000,000, of which $140,000,000 is for ruined merchandise and cleaning buildings, much of the rest for damage to lungs and respiratory tracts. Salt Lake City's smoke problem is especially acute because the city lies in a natural bowl whose rim tends to keep the pall from dispersing. Metallurgical coke and petroleum carbon, supposedly "smokeless," have been tried there without success. The problem can be solved by treating bituminous coal with superheated steam at 1,000 to 1,400° F., driving...
...Shidzué, at 18, was married, she found that her husband was far more deeply dissatisfied with feudal customs and restraints than she had been. Head of a wealthy and powerful family, a Christian humanist, young Baron Ishimoto became a mining engineer, took his inexperienced bride to the grimy coal fields of western Japan. There they lived for two and a half years on an equal footing with other employes, housed in a miserable thatched hut, on the Baron's salary of $25 per month. Shidzué saw a gas explosion, went into the dangerous mines where naked...