Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sept. 1, the anthracite coal fields of Northeastern Pennsylvania become the scene of a brief coal-strike and last week no one expected more than the briefest of curtain-raisers?statistics will show...
Meanwhile the anthracite miners have been working at top speed. Every available bin is being used for storage. The operators want plenty of coal on hand in preparation for a long strike. The miners have been glad to get extra pay to put aside for the payless strike days...
...long," said Governor Fuller, "our section of the country has stuck to anthracite while other sections never use it." "Anthracite" said Mr. Hammond, "is a luxury and not to be indulged in at too great a cost. We have plenty of substitutes" ?meaning bituminous (soft) coal, coke, fuel-oil. That was the lesson Governor Fuller desired to have expounded...
With the threatened strike of Britain's coal miners just settled (TIME, Aug. 10) by a subsidy to the mine operators, a form of settlement which even labor leaders are denouncing, a new strike broke...
...bringing a small container filled with crude oil into contact with the silken thread. The principle that would cause the indication of the presence of oil in the ground, he explained, was the natural one that "like attracts like." Furthermore, the machine would indicate other buried minerals?copper, gold, coal, iron?if properly "primed...