Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill is passed; the World Court is entered (so far as Congress is concerned); the Italian debt is settled; the tariff, farm problems, postal rates, reclamation difficulties, senatorial cloture, labor problems in the coal mines and on the railroad have grown cold on the stove for want of a little fire; prohibition fury is bubbling away to nothing in a futile investigation...
Baldwin. Sorely harassed, Premier Stanley Baldwin spent virtually the whole of last week in attempting to mediate between the coal miners and owners of Britain. (TIME, Apr. 26 et ante...
Since the subsidy extended to the coal industry last July has already cost the British taxpayer £100,000,000 (nearly half a billion dollars), there is the most intense opposition to its continuance* by all unsubsidized taxpayers. At the same time, the miners insisted last week, that they would walk out May, 1, unless their wage demands were met; and the owners vowed they would lock the miners out rather than pay the wage demanded, unless the government continues its subsidy...
Totals. Mr. Churchill estimated that the government would have to spend some £812,000,000. He calculated on raising revenues that would yield a surplus of about £4,000,000. But the coal subsidy if figured in with the expenditures instantly turns this surplus into a deficit...
...interested in making an accurate picture of a piece of machinery used to lift stones; the crane became as vital a thing as a comet, a mountain or a waterfall. This is the quality that informs all his best work: his bridges poised in tensile grace over tugboats and coal barges; his factory forges; his skyscrapers lifting, tier by tier, their walls and towers and denticulated terraces into...