Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forty-nine Russians and three Germans face the Soviet Supreme Court, the Russians charged with High Treason and all defendants with conspiracy to sabotage* the vital Soviet coal mines in the region of the River...
Gaunt and grimy stokers, silhouetted in furnace glare, are no longer an integral part of a ship's bowels. Even coal burners can do without them. Last week members of the Fuel Conservation Committee of the U. S. Shipping Board sweated in the test furnace room of the Todd Dry Dock Co.; peered at an intricate machine which was busily pulverizing soft coal and blowing it into furnaces. Hitherto, on the experiment freighter Mercer, the coal has been pulverized in one machine, then distributed to three furnaces, but the latest improvement provides each furnace with its own pulverizer...
Pulverized coal is not a recent invention. The Ford Co., the N. Y. Edison Co.. all the big new power stations are familiar with its advantages, much to the envy of ship owners. But the separate furnaces on vessels created problems of distribution and firing that made powdered coal impracticable for them. These problems have now been solved...
Elected. Richard Frank Grant, president of the Susquehanna Collieries Company, onetime (1924-25) president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; to be head of the new Lehigh Valley Coal Co. sales corporation...
...island. In the territory are Tokyo (population 2,000,000) where the imperial government sits, Yokohama the seaport, and a great hinterland of rice fields, silkworm farms and river industries. Along Tokyo bay are shipyards, steel & iron foundries, factories for making textiles, paper, chemicals, machinery, pottery, cement, rayon. What coal those plants can get in Japan is of poor grade; what coal they can get by import is expensive. So they turn for power to electricity. And the Tokyo Electric Light Co. supplies it. No wonder, remarks Wall Street, the company has paid dividends every one of its 42 years...