Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NAKED MAN ? Vere Hutchinson?Century ($2). A man's dream of one woman, his lust for another, need of a third?these are his nakedness. A son,' conceived in drunkenness and evil, had stagnated in the murk of a coal mine for 13 years with but two gleams of light?the dream of a girl he had loved in boyhood, and the memory of a year spent convalescing from illness on an uncle's farm. Unexpectedly the farm was bequeathed to him. With his dull wife and the bitter memory of a stillborn son, he went to the land...
...stating that the bituminous operators had broken their contract. In your zeal to keep up your reputation for giving information in short paragraphs, you failed to mention that this is the same Coolidge who on July 19 assured the newspapers at Swampscott that he "has determined to prevent a coal strike." The strike came, as we all know, and "the little calm, cool man" had the same remedy as usual to suggest, "nothing." And you failed to mention that...
...Coal. "With deposits of coal in this country capable of supplying its needs for hundreds of years, inability to manage and control this great resource for the benefit of all concerned is very close to a national economic failure. ... At the present time the national government has little or no authority to deal with this vital necessity of the life of the country. It has permitted itself to remain so powerless that its only attitude must be humble supplication. Authority should be lodged with the President and the Departments of Commerce and Labor, giving them power to deal with...
Transfers. All payments were made in kind, except in the case of cash turned over to the Allied Armies of occupation, to be spent for their expenses in Germany. Payments were chiefly in coal, coke and lignite...
...being shut down much of the time. He declared that 14.5% of the shoe factories, employing 60.4% of the labor in that trade, could if they worked 300 days a year produce 95% of the shoes needed in this country. He showed similar conditions in flour milling and bituminous coal mining, and declared that some legislative remedy should be found without creating monopolies. He recommended that measures be taken for the enrollment of all resident aliens as a means of check-up on those not having a right to reside in the country, and suggested that the President be given...