Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortage of coal is reflected in poor heating of trains below first class, and presumably in more important ways. There is some economy in lighting, but nothing startling. The high grade hotels are warm enough to be comfortable...
...course of a long automobile ride we a saw a very interesting system of open brown-coal workings, in the district near Hallo. This "Braunkohl" is taken from thick deposits by steam shovels, and is sent in various directions by cable ways, some of considerable length, to the plants where by-products are recovered and the carbon residue pressed into fuel briquettes. Roughly half of the coal burned in Germany is processed before being used as fuel. On this trip one of the large Haber process plants for fixation of atmospheric nitrogen was seen from the road. It was between...
...Germany has always mothered an interest in Russia, the hope of her is in Russia, and if permitted to express that hope, she could recuperate from her late losses within twenty years and prepare for an indefinite period of war. From Russia's mines unlimited coal and iron could be extracted, from her soil foodstuffs and timber to supply the entire German nation. No longer would she be dependent upon England and South America, but quite self-sufficient. If allowed to press on in this direction she would have every incentive to attack Great Britain, France and Italy, then Further...
...methods by which this end is to be attained are as unusual as the aim itself. From the coal used in the engines he will extract the benzol, which he thus obtains free through the sale of the valuable by-products. From this benzol he will get as much energy as from the original amount of coal through an efficient boiler system. This, together with the "sweating of executive brows" will provide the wherewithal to buy the sewing machines and phonographs. The autos he does not need to worry about...
Special investigations have become so numerous of late that they are a common feature of our political life. The existence of committees to probe the coal industry, housing conditions, ship-building and other operations, both public and private, is as necessary as it is deplorable, and apparently will remain so as long as public service administrators are responsible only to their pocketbooks...