Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...182Noted that Lady Astor remained straight lipped, even when Jones achieved the excruciating West Ham witticism of shouting at Home Secretary ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks: "You're getting coal every day from filthy German Huns to break the coal strike! All right! Get your coal from Hell...
...182Approved by a majority of 129, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks' project to devote ?3,000,000 ($15,000,000) to the importation of coal. Said "Jix": "The Government's decision to purchase coal in quantities is prompted by a resolve that the poor must not be deprived of fuel. . . . The Government will not supply coal to large users who can import it on their own account...
...Were informed by Secretary for Mines Lane-Fox that over one million tons of coal have been imported since the beginning of the coal strike (TIME...
...1825eethed, and betrayed acute concern while the Lords debated the anti-strike bill jammed through the Commons by Premier Baldwin (TIME, July 12) to lengthen coal mine working hours temporarily from seven to eight so that the owners can offer a wage high enough to tempt the miners back to work...
...prophet Isaiah in Chapter VI, verses 5, 7, 8, of the book of Isaiah, reports: Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here I am, send...