Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Accomplishments of three locomotives warranted reporting last week, despite the popular impression that the last locomotive word had been said with the construction of the monster double-articulated Mallet engine which hauls mile-long coal trains over the Cumberland Mountains...
...Long-Lugger. The Baltimore & Ohio has 21 engines named after Presidents. They haul the B. & O.'s Capitol Limited and National Limited and other crack trains and last week the President Pierce, with a mechanical stoker feeding Pittsburgh seam coal into the fire box, made an experimental trip over the 786 miles between Chicago and Washington, † Normally four locomotives, changing at three stations, are necessary on the Chicago-Washington...
...Last year's profit from all sources (including income from the ¼-owned National Sugar Refining Co.) totaled $9,614,432, as against $6,618,740 in 1927. Its holdings are wide and diverse. Not only does it own sugar refining plants but also a cooperage company, a coal company, and 300,000 acres of Cuban sugar land, equipped with factories and a railroad. This property produces 12% of all the company's raw sugar requirements...
...King-Emperor approved the appointment of his second son, Prince Albert, Duke of York, to be Lord High Commissioner of the Church of Scotland, an office bestowed in 1924 by the then Labor Prime Minister, James Ramsay MacDonald, on one James Brown, a prac-ticing coal miner...
Power of Wales. Could the popularity and prestige of Edward of Wales be thrown on the side of any one party it would certainly tip the scale. H. R. H. gave politicians a lot to think about by his trip to the coal fields and later by declaring at a banquet attended by foremost British industrialists that unless they improve their sales methods the Empire's trade will suffer (TIME, March 4). Should he openly attempt, however, to champion any party he would be doing violence to that most cherished of British fetishes−the idea that the Throne...