Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover denied the prevailing story that the Vestris shipped water first through an illsealed coalport. He declared that it was much more likely that water first entered the vessel through a broken scupper or sanitary pipe. Not until she had a list of 13 degrees or more would the coal ports be submerged...
...phases of the work in 1928. Some facts: The Federal employment service found jobs for 1,412,645 applicants. The Bureau of Conciliation intervened in 478 industrial disputes. It worked to tranquillize strikes and lockouts affecting 350,000 workers (but claimed no great success in the bitter, long-drawn coal strike of last winter, which it proved powerless to end). Immigration is in Labor's province and Secretary Davis dwelt at some length on how the restrictive immigration law of 1924 had worked. Two things worried him, or two phases of the same thing. Immigrants from most countries...
Constantinople may soon be the Detroit of the Orient. For the Turkish Government has granted to Henry Ford a 25-year concession by which he may erect a Constantinople plant for assembling automobiles, trucks, tractors, planes. Ford must use Turkish coal, Turkish workmen...
...American Locomotive Co., the most powerful locomotive in the world will soon be completed. Generating 6,000 horsepower, it could pull, over a level track, a train two miles long. For its thirst it requires 14,400 gallons of water per hour; for its hunger, 20 tons of coal in the same period. Its firebox is the size of a portable garage. With its tender, it weighs one million pounds and is as long as half a city block. Designed chiefly for work on steep grades, it will haul across the Rockies trains that now creep slowly onward with...
...Popes of Rome. A present hobby is the collection of originals of newspaper cartoons. Mr. Woodin plays little golf; seldom uses his costly yacht. He is a graduate of Columbia (school of mines, 1890) and an Alpha Delta Phi, was Fuel Administrator in New York State during the coal strike of 1922, ran for Congress unsuccessfully in 1898 and though a life-long Republican, supported Governor Smith. He is 60. Believing strongly in self-control, he stops smoking one month each year to demonstrate that he is no tobacco-slave...