Word: coale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Bituminous Coal Merchants Association announced lump coal wrapped in Cellophane, to keep cellars clean and enable housewives to put coal into furnaces without soiling their hands...
...exploit Mae West's film Go West, Young Man, eight U. S. newspapers conducted popularity contests to send eight "eligible bachelors" to Hollywood for eight days. Each bachelor was promised an evening with Miss West. Iowa's LeRoy Kling, 28-year-old Cedar Rapids seed & coal dealer, stuttered on arrival: "For 30? I'd turn around and go back home. I wouldn't feel this way if I knew what to expect. . . . Why, I only had one date when I was in high school." Bachelor Guy Bassilli from Cairo, Egypt, did not talk for publication. Cleveland...
REED Kennedy sang in the Cornell University glee club. Since he preferred singing to anything else, he considered himself unfortunate in inheriting two coal companies in Pittsburgh. For seven years he sat behind the president's desk and sold coal, all the while frequently thinking back to the days when he sang over radio with a college trio. When his two brothers grew old enough to handle the coal business, Kennedy started humbly over KDKA in Pittsburgh, sang in a church choir...
Happy steel executives were predicting an operating rate of 85% before the year end. U. S. Steel Corp. proposed to share its Pittsburgh prosperity with Birmingham, Ala., by announcing a $29,000,000 tin palate mill for its subsidiary, Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. Cheered were Pittsburgh police when they picked up a 20-year-old California vagrant who explained his presence: "I heard there was a boom in Pittsburgh...
...persistence in trying to formulate stop-gap measures to replace laws ignominiously thrown out by the Supreme Court is typical of his underhand methods. If he had sufficient courage to brave the political blast, he would come out in favor of a constitutional amendment to legalize Hot Oil, Guffey Coal, and A.A.A. The people could then endorse or reject his theories of government and would be able to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted a planned economy and governmental regulation or industry. These fundamental issues, which differ widely from ideals that Americans have hitherto cherished, must...