Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right and Christian way to compel the payment of the debt'. We who hold to our faith in the teachings of Jesus Christ are asked to believe that any sums of money which may be pressed out of the Ruhr are to be sanctified and holy, that the coal mined by a half-starved and half-distracted miner at the point of a bayonet will bring peace, contentment, and happiness to some poor, much-to-be pitied inhabitant of the desolated districts of France. It will do nothing of the kind. It will carry with it inevitably a curse...
...Coal. The German mine owners failed to pay the tax imposed on them; but France has been unable to carry out her threat of commandeering the surface coal massed at the pit-heads, owing to the shortage of labor. She has, however, stated that every effort will be made to obtain foreign labor with which to move the coal and coke in the Ruhr...
...kept warmly housed in a centrally heated museum at public expense. His case was so desperate that he asked to be permitted to have a room in the museum-the Hotel Biron, formerly his own studio. The official in charge of the museum refused. Other officials and friends promised coal but never sent it, though his situation at Meudon, ill, and freezing to death, was apparently well known to all of them...
...barrel by several prominent companies, notably the Texas Company and the Humble Oil and Refining Company. Yet the daily average production of 1,801,800 barrels for the period ending March 10 has established a new high record for the history of this country. The recent difficulties in the coal industry have probably proved of importance in the steadily widening employment of fuel...
Henry Ford: "In the coal mines that I picked up in Pond Creek, West Virginia, the other day, I am paying the miners 20% more than any other non-union field in the state...