Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arch Coleman is a quiet Quaker. Fifty-two and fair, he walks, hunts, fishes for diversion. He owned the City Coal Co. at Minneapolis until he was appointed postmaster there seven years ago. Last fortnight he thought he was going to move to Washington to sit in the House of Representatives. Last week he did find himself in Washington, sitting not at the Capitol in a mere Representative's seat but up in the Hoover sub-Cabinet. Helping hands at the White House had straightened out a bad political mess in his favor...
...McGraw-Hill publishes 26 magazines, mostly technical. Some are: Electrical World, Coal Age, Aviation, Power, Textile World...
...that the then-young Baltimore & Ohio R. R. would want the Canton district for a Baltimore freight terminal. No purchase was made, however, and for many years Canton remained comparatively undeveloped, its chief industries being cockfighting and politics. Shortly before the Civil War, Canton did become prominent as a coal port, and the Canton Iron Works was built. Here were cast the armor-plates for the ironclad Monitor, whose famed battle with the Merrimac marked the passing of the wooden warship. In the general industrial expansion of post-Civil War days, Canton grew into a great manufacturing and shipping centre...
Stuart, James & Cooke, Manhattan consulting engineers, for rebuilding old and building new coal mines and for installing modern coal mine equipment...
...Nationalization of coal mines and railways. The mining problem and the unemployment connected therewith, is vital to British politics...