Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terribly agog. On the very next evening dozens of red carnations appeared in Mayfair, and smart women flattered their escorts by thrilling, "How adorably ghastly!" Meanwhile, however, Jester Wales, having had his floral joke,* was speeding nocturnally toward the north of England, to visit in grim earnest the stricken coal fields where a half-million miners are workless and nigh to starving (TIME...
...mark are not disturbed on international exchange. The disadvantage is that, in practice, prodigious complexities arise, out of which not a few crooks have profited. Exactly a year ago another set of international sharpers cheated the Great Powers concerned out of $12,000,000 worth of German hops, coal, seed (TIME...
...flying wives of Sir Abe (diamonds) Bailey, 64, and Sir James (coal & iron) Heath, 77, were on the ground last week...
...traffic congestion, to the benefit of shippers, if to the chagrin of trans-shippers. Neighboring cities might benefit, places like Port Newark, N. J., and Norfolk, Va. All four railroad systems would carry grain and manufactured articles eastward. The Pennsylvania, C. & O. and B. & O. would go through soft coal country (western Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia), the New York Central and Pennsylvania through hard coal country (eastern Pennsylvania). Pennsylvania and B. & O. would serve the middle Atlantic states. New York Central would take care of New England over the Boston & Albany and New York, New Haven & Hartford, and would reach...
...Taplin brothers of Cleveland want the Wheeling, as they do the Western Maryland, to hook up with their short Pittsburgh & West Virginia and form a private Lakes-to-Ocean coal road. So they demanded that the I. C. C. forbid the B. & O., N. Y. Central and Van Sweringens to own the Wheeling. The I. C. C. last week continued to cogitate...