Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lifted up his small, lisping voice and sang "The Sidewalks of New York" for a "talkie" film at Albany. With Jefferson, the Great Dane, nearby, he was not afraid. Nor was it "baloney" to him. He sang earnestly, correctly, to the end. George J. Anderson, president of the Consolidated Coal Co. (Rockefeller, "largest U. S. producers of soft coal,") declared for Smith and said: "The present administration has not disguised its hostility to West Virginia's basic interest." He mentioned that West Virginia voted for Coolidge in 1924 instead of its native John William Davis. "The State has received...
...platform promises that the Party, if returned to power, will gradually nationalize the coal, transport, power and life insurance businesses and establish minimum wage scales for all earners. Swiftest action is promised to repeal: 1) the Trades Union Act (making a "Coercive" or General Strike illegal); 2) the Trades Disputes Act (restraining unions from making extraordinary levies on their members) ; and 3) the Eight Hour Mines Act (under which British miners now delve an hour a day longer than...
...Lake Cargo Coal Case"-between Southern coal and railroad men, Northern coal and railroad men, and the Interstate Commerce Commission, over freight rates...
...loadings numbered 1,138,312 the week of Sept. 15, the greatest number so far this year. Grain, livestock, coal, merchandise are moving in great quantities...
...Russian Coal to Boston. Boston is close to 5,000 ship miles from the Don coal basin of Russia; Boston is about 300 miles from the anthracite coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania, about 600 from the bituminous deposits of Western Pennsylvania and of West Virginia. Yet the difference between production and shipping costs is enough for Boston to buy a shipment of coal from Russia...