Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hostile will be the Pennsylvania, which only last year bought control of the Wabash and might well object to relinquishing this major line (2,400 miles). The Pennsylvania is also understood to be sympathetic with the ambitions of Charles Farrand Taplin, who is trying to put together a fast coal route from Toledo to the Atlantic and all of whose prospective roads (particularly the Western Maryland) are included in the B. & O. plan. The Pennsylvania, affluent, central, well satisfied with existing conditions, has no more reason to applaud new consolidations than Great Britain had reason to applaud Napoleon's armies...
Followed threats of a great hard-coal strike, and Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, rushed to the breach...
Work Not Done. The World Court has not been joined; the farmer has not been '"relieved"; railroads are still unconsolidated; the coal industry is still bogged; there has been no extension of naval disarmament agreements; prohibition remains a mess. All these were Coolidge projects...
...indignant young man and a genial, flabby-handed oldster conferred, last week in the Prime Minister's Room of the House of Commons, without witnesses, without prior notice to the press. Edward of Wales told Stanley Baldwin about his recent tour of the North English coal fields, described scenes of bitter misery and awful squalor which had caused H. R. H. to exclaim (TIME, Feb. 11): "This is ghastly! I never thought things were so bad!" "A ghastly mess. . . ." Presumably the heir to the throne used equally strong language, last week, to the Prime Minister. What would Stanley Baldwin...
...correspondent reported that Her Majesty apologized for the condition of the palace. She explained that Prince Peter was playing with a coal-scuttle. Said Her Majesty: "He insists on playing with coal, mud, paint, and everything else he ought not to play with." Changing the subject, she added, "Like my mother, I try to give as much time to charitable and hospital work as I can; but you have no idea how many other things a queen is called upon...