Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further Developments: 1) Oswald Mosely, wealthy Socialist baronet and M. P., husband of Lady Cynthia, daughter of Lord Curzon, 2) "Emperor" Cooke, incendiary Coal-Laborite, took little part in the debate, but caused a sensation by remaining seated while the national anthem was played...
...Holy Terror is a melodrama of the coal mines. Its chief character is a lawless fellow whom eyerybody, including detectives hired to break a strike, was anxious to hang by the neck until he was dead. There is a murder charge against him toward the end to urge on the slightly lagging plot. There are revolvers, lovers and a ti'ial scene. Taken in one critical gulp they go down as only pretty good...
What are those blue sparks under the engine's front truck? What whistle is this that hoots in the cab? The engineer does not stir, the tipsy fireman cannot hear above his clanking rake and the ' shattering roar of the coal car. The whistle in the cab changes its note...
Still the men in the cab and coal car are oblivious. The warning whistle stops. There is a scream of airbrakes all along the train, an unseen hand shuts the steam throttle, the express comes to a grinding, jolting halt. The life it carries is safe. The conductor, trotting beside the ties to investigate, thanks his stars that the Chicago & Northwestern Railway installed its new automatic train control along that particular stretch of track...
...Northwestern's announcement came almost exactly on the hundredth anniversary of the steam engine. On Sept. 27, 1825, with no small ceremony and excitement the hitherto horse-drawn cars running from the Darlington coal mines to the Stockton docks (County Durham, England) 37 miles away, were hitched to a steam-driven wagon invented by Engineer George Stephenson of Scotland...