Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twenty years ago, in a poor saloon on the outskirts of Baku, near the factory quarters, one could meet a badly dressed young man with crooked nose, low forehead and coal-black hair. He was a Georgian, the publisher of the workmen's paper. He called himself Koba, Nischeradse, Tschischikov, Ivanovitsch, and, lastly, Stalin. His real name was Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili...
Steel. Republic Iron & Steel Co. (Youngstown, Ohio) approved consolidation with the smaller Steel & Tubes, Inc., (Cleveland, Ohio), for these reasons: Republic can furnish Steel & Tubes with strip steel and pipe, developing its coal and ore reserves, bringing plant operation near capacity. Assets of the two companies total about $200,000,000. Steel & Tubes, Inc., rose from the business of the Wick family of Youngstown and Cleveland. An astute, enterprising Wick is Myron A., now President of Steel & Tubes...
...lost his own right leg when he, 13, substituted for a switchman who was off on a post-payday drunk, at a coal mine in Braidwood, Ill. He tried to uncouple two cars of a moving train; his right foot became wedged in a frog and stayed there...
Walter Clark Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, sailed on the Aquitania for his usual summer trip. His chief concerns: money from the Soviets for oil properties they confiscated from his company's business allies; German extraction of oil from coal; Turkish oil production. Last week, he became president of the Near East Development Co., holders of the U. S.'s 23¾% interest in Mosul fields...
...since the brief, disastrous period of the General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926) have so many Britons been jobless. Ominous last week was a warning issued by the Government's Industrial Transfer Board that there are now at least 200,000 "permanently unemployed" British coal miners who must either be transferred to other employment or continue indefinitely half-starved upon the dole. A most drastic move to prevent further increase in unemployment was made, last week, quite independently of the Government, by the British Railway Managers Association and the Great National Unions of locomotive engineers, firemen, railway...