Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Couzens, 31, Canadian by birth, was receiving $1,800 a year, working in a coal yard in Detroit. His employer, A. Y. Malcolmson, took some stock in the company Henry Ford was organizing in exchange for guaranteeing the Ford Company's credit up to $7,000. Malcolmson detached Couzens to work with Ford. Couzens had just received a bonus of $500 for bringing the profits of the coal yard up to $90,000 a year. He put this with $400 he had saved, borrowed $100 from his sister and added his personal note for $1,500- with this...
Increases were: lumber (20%), coal (40%), petroleum (18%), martensite † (80%), iron ore (112%), copper (60%), manganese (45%), textiles (35%-50%), flax fabric (35%), matches (30%), rolled iron (50%), pig iron (122%), steel (35%), hides (3%), raw sugar (40%), cotton crop (800% within a two-year period...
...this movement occurred. The cause lay in the announcement by resident Samuel M. Vauclain that the Baldwin Locomotive Co. had perfected a new Diesel oil-burning locomotive, which would burn the cheapest type of crude oil, and effect a saving in fuel bills of from 25 to 50% over coal-burning steam locomotives. The new engine has resulted from experiments conducted by Baldwin over . The past ten years. Disclaiming stores that the new Diesel locomotive would "revolutionize the locomotive industry," Mr. Vauclain held that it Would supplant steam locomotives in certain kinds of work, such as running across long, water...
...Firedamp is a gas given oft by coal when freshly exposed to the atmosphere, which, when mixed with from four to twelve times its volume of air, is explosive. A common name for it is marsh gas; in substance, it is carbureted hydrogen, oxygen...
PROCESSIONAL. A cruel and yet elusive study of a coal-mine town done in a strange expressionistic medium by the Theatre Guild. You will either cheer or revile. You cannot ignore...