Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That coal miners by average add 1.1 children to their families between the ages of 46 and 49. ¶ That about 3 out of 4 children born to coal miners before the age of 50 are living at the end of that period. ¶ That physicians, dentists and surgeons have the smallest number of children at the age of 50 when presumably their families are completed. ¶ That of the children born to physicians, etc., under 50 years of age, 10 out of 11 live to the end of that period...
...lumber, turned for a brief space to the very human subject of children. But as usual it had to deliver its findings in the form of statistics. It presented its results in maximums and minimums. Families with fathers 45-49 years old All Living Children Children Max. . . 8.1 6.6 Coal Miners Min. 3.3 3.0 Physicians Dentists, Surgeons Families with fathers 40-44 years old All Living Children Children Max. . 7.0 5.9 Coal Miners Min. 2.8 2.6 Architects Actors Inferences which may be drawn from these statistics : - ¶ That men engaged in coal mining are more prolific than men engaged...
...WHEREAS, oil, of which the supply is limited, is rapidly taking the place of coal, and, whereas, coal, the supply of which is comparatively unlimited, cannot take the place...
...readable and comprehensive, profusely illustrated under five major headings comprising groups of special histories: 1) TRANSPORTATION : railroads, waterpower, electric cars, automobiles airplanes; 2) COMMUNICATION: printing, typewriting, telegraphy, telephony, radio, photography, motion pictures, phonographs; 3) POWER: steam, electricity, illumination; 4) EXPLOITING RESOURCES : iron and steel, copper and "nobler metals," oil, coal, lumbering, cotton, agriculture; 5) LABOR SAVING DEVICES: automatic tools, pneumatic devices, sewing machines, shoemaking machines...
Saar Basin. A protest by Germany charging that France compelled German children to attend French schools in the Saar area in an effort to bias them politically was discussed by the Council. Eventually, a plebescite is to decide whether the Saar Basin (rich coal area) is to belong permanently to France or Germany; hence the German fears...