Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vestris sprang a leak. Chief Engineer James A. Adams went below, found water pouring in through an ash-discharger valve, also into the engine room where a pipe had given way. Hardly had these been stopped when it was discovered the Vestris was shipping heavy seas through a coal port...
This last leak was on the port side, but water flowed to starboard because the ship was listing to that side. Sunday afternoon a fourth leak was found in the starboard coal bunkers. By 6 o'clock Sunday evening all the pumps were working, and still the water gained. Two more leaks had developed...
Engaged. Allen A. Ryan Jr., Manhattan broker, grandson of famed Manhattan financier Thomas Fortune Ryan (public utilities, Congo diamonds, railways, coal, tobacco, onetime officer or director in more than 30 corporations), to Janet Newbold of Washington...
...Manhattan-Wilmington miles of track will be the longest railroad electrification unit in the country. The St. Paul. whose partial electrification contributed most to that road's bankruptcy three years ago, has a total 646 miles of track. The Norfolk & Western, which carries coal across the Cumberland Mountains, has 77 miles of electrified track. The coal-carrying Virginian in the same territory has 231 miles...
...first exploiter of unferreted educational byways. Mopology is destined for janitors. It will not teach lilting songs to rhythmic moppers, nor utilitarian philosophy for long janitorial hours. Mopology will strenuously, scientifically stress the importance of clean corners, dustless desks, and the danger of overheating due to too much coal in the furnace...