Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American economists will do well to consider China and her relations to future American trade. China's natural resources of coal, iron, and forests are as great as our own, and some day they will be opened up. Her population makes up one fourth of the human race. We are told that the human being is the most important factor in national wealth. When, therefore, China with her vast resources is opened up, and with her plentiful supply of labor to work those resources, it is obvious that her trade is going to assume world importance...
...coal situation today presents a curious medley of inconsistencies. Although the strike at the mines has been finally settled, the railroad companies have not enough sound freight cars to distribute the enormous output. This deficiency in rolling stock is a result of the railroad strike. There has been an unprecedented importation of coal from Great Britain; so great, in fact, that Boston has had to stop importing it. The British coal, however, was bituminous, of which there is at present no scarcity in Boston; although, in default of even this, the rest of Massachusetts has to burn wood...
Even in Boston, it is almost impossible to get a pound of hard coal. To alleviate this hardship, the city government undertook to sell coke, which it had put up in bags by convict labor to lessen the cost. The price, however, of this aid to the poor was five dollars a ton higher than the price of coke sold by private concerns. A few days ago, in North Cambridge and Somerville, several families paid eighteen dollars a ton for an excellent grade of crushed rock, powdered with wet soft coal dust, which an affable stranger offered them in unlimited...
...questions Secretary Hoover when he declares that the Federal government is legally powerless to settle the coal strike; but the very hopelessness of any settlement save through government interference, emphasizes and great gulf between the strict constructionists of 1789 and the Constitution as interpreted today. Jefferson would turn in his grave if he could see the complex machinery of the national government he strove to hold in check. More and more is it becoming natural for every sort of interest when in difficulty to turn to the government for a solution. The finger of paternalism extended far more readily...
railroads," he continued. "In the first place, most of the companies have enough coal stored up to last them for two or three months, without any other source of supply. In the second place, the mines in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Southern Pennsylvania are non-union mines, and have therefore remained in operation. These mines produce approximately one-third of the annual coal output. I expect that they will produce an even greater amount during the strike. This, with the coal already stored up, should be sufficient to maintain practically normal railroad service...