Word: coale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spending $48,000,000 to harness the 20-ft. tides of the Bay of Fundy at Passamaquoddy, Me. They declared that Maine's remote northern tip offered no market for the vast amounts of power which would result, that necessary power could be produced more cheaply from coal. But. when Maine was preparing to whirl its political weather vane last summer, President Roosevelt expressed renewed interest in Passama quoddy, Secretary Ickes visited the site. Maine swung to the Democrats and last week got $10,000,000 for Passamaquoddy...
...Coal was getting scarce in his little hospital. However, Eskimos piled whale and walrus blubber at the back door in case blubber was needed for fuel.* Airplanes brought Dr. Greist canned milk for his patients and some serums. By wireless he informed the interested world that the three other white men and two trained nurses at Point Barrow were helping bring the epidemic under control...
...Blubber burns so fiercely it melts the iron of coal-stove grates...
Died. Benjamin Henry Throop, 46, dilettante fourth-generation owner of the Throop Coal Mines (Scranton and Throop, Pa.), heir to a fortune once estimated at $68,000,000, president of the Shepherd Dog Club of America; of an intestinal ailment; in Manhattan...
...Conclusive evidence that coal and other minerals exist in Antarctica; that the entire Antarctic Ice Barrier is not afloat, as was commonly supposed, but is partly grounded; that the ice at the South Pole varies in thickness from two feet to two miles; that more meteors strike the earth's atmosphere than was formerly suspected; that the Edsel Ford Mountain Range may be a continuation of the great Andean Range; that a hitherto unknown area of 250,000 sq. mi. is part of the Pacific Ocean; that the inland fauna of Antarctica consists solely of skua gulls which live...