Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anthracite coal strike, costly to all consumers of hard coal, is also expensive to the railroads engaged in loading anthracite. These roads are the Delaware & Hudson, Lehigh Valley, Lackawanna, Reading, Central of New Jersey, Lehigh & Hudson, Lehigh & New England, and Pennsylvania...
That he worked his way across the Atlantic as a freight and coal carrier, and then stepped ashore with diamonds on his hands was emphatically denied by Dr. Franz Von Oy, German student at the University, when shown the newspaper accounts of his trip to this country...
...newspaper story, which credited him with being a graduate of the University of Munich, of having worked his way across the Atlantic as a coal carrier, and of his landing with diamonds on his fingers, he denounced as absolutely false...
...Germany such a thing could never happen, and I cannot understand how the papers write such falsehoods", said Dr. Von Oy. "I do not come from Munich, but from Kiel. I don't wear diamonds, and far from being a coal and freight carrier, I came over as a guest of the captain...
...funny if you are an aquatic bird (duck, heron, egret, gallinule, spoonbill, ibis, bittern crane) and, having flown down to Florida for the winter, find your favorite lagoon drained dry. You have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling...