Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. John E. Berwind, 73, active philanthropist, inactive vice president, Berwind-White Coal Mining Co.; of laryngitis, in Manhattan. His business address, No. 1 Broadway, is the location of 14 famed coal companies, 35 smaller...
...dark unrest that lurks at the bottom of the coal industry, even at its best, broke out again last week in Mather, Pa. The Mather mine, owned and operated by Pickands, Mather & Co. of Cleveland, is one of the model mines of the U. S. In its shafts are all the modern appliances for air, light, production, safety. Run on an open-shop basis, it employs some 750 men steadily, 300 days in the year. The town is clean. The Mather men are contented...
William Dudley Haywood had been born 59 years ago in another small gloomy room, the kitchen of a mining cottage in Salt Lake City where his father worked. When he was nine, Bill Haywood was sent to work digging coal; this he disliked, so a few years later he was bound out to a farmer. Bill Haywood ran away from the farm, did some prospecting, became a Socialist. In 1899, when the Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, striking began, he was chairman of the executive committee of the Western Federation of Miners. Seven years later he was the defendant...
...husbands of the two flying Ladies also figured in the news. Said Sir Abe Bailey, 63, owner of diamond mines, at a luncheon in honor of his wife in Cape Town: "I knew she was a brave woman when she married me." Sir James Heath, 76, coal & iron tycoon, amazed mechanics by giving his wife a vigorous & noisy kiss when she landed at Croydon Airdrome in London. Said he: "A braver woman never lived...
Also operating in Greater New York is the Brooklyn Union Gas Co., which supplies artificial gas (made by heating coal) to the greater part of Brooklyn and a large and growing section of Queens. Its assets are more than $100,000,000 and Secretary