Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statuary. Possibly no statues in the whole murky city are better known or more consistently photographed than the two living statues that guard Britain's War Office-the living mounted sentries of the Horse Guards. Splendid, remote and eternal, they stand in their little sentry boxes: two coal-black horses, currycombed to satin smoothness; two six-foot troopers in jackboots, silver breastplates, plumed helmets. Not even when irreverent trippers tempt the chargers with raw carrots, or drop peanut shells into the troopers' boot tops, do they move...
Jones. A prominent member of the coal business nowadays is "Tad" Jones. The public knows him better as the old-time coach of Yale football teams. Mr. Jones used to welcome to Yale physiques like coal heavers. Now he employs physiques like that professionally, and for his private yacht, the T. A. D. Jones, sturdy collier. Last week, off the New Jersey coast, the T. A. D. Jones was fired on, stopped by the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Seneca...
...fairness to Germany it must be remembered that the Fatherland was stripped of colonies after the War, and thus deprived of raw materials which would very materially have assisted debt payment. It is conceivable that in German East Africa alone there may eventually be found enough gold, copper, coal and oil to pay the whole reparations bill. It is but natural that Dr. Schacht should cast eyes upon these resources, that he should remember East Prussia, now cut off from Germany by the "corridor" which Poland was given to connect her with the sea. On the other hand the "Iron...
...Cook has actively plotted to topple down the British Throne. He has publicly "thanked God for Moscow!" because from that city he received thousands of gold rubles to promote the General Strike. Just now the fortunes of "Emperor" Cook are at considerably lower ebb; and as Secretary of the Coal Miners' Federation he very thankfully waits upon the Lord Mayor's Fund, administered to keep Out-of-work miners from starving. Last week the Lord Mayor of London, well-fed Colonel Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, gave a luncheon at Mansion House and at the speakers' table...
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. Largest steel producer west of the Mississippi. Main works at Pueblo, Colo. Strike in company coal mines lowered 1928 earnings (first nine months, $1.54 per share). Steel rails are its chief product...