Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power plants must include not only hydro-electric but steam-driven generators. "We must mix the white coal [water power] with the black coal [thermic power]," declares Signor Motta, "[to] make up for the deficiency of water power in years of minimum rain fall...
...action of this play occurs in the small town of Drumheller, Alberts, a coal mining community on the Canadian National Railroad, seventy miles northeast of Calgary. The story is borrowed intact from the Royal Mounted Records of Drumheller's last coul strike...
...figure "circulated" by Senator Wagner was 4,000,000 workers out of work. Secretary Davis' figure was 1,874,050. This figure which included voluntary idleness (coal strikers etc.) had been arrived at by subtracting the estimated number of persons now earning wages and salaries, from the number of earners in 1925, a year not noted for unemployment. Making no allowance for an increase in this U. S. working population since 1925, the figures suggested that for each worker now out of a job, there are 12 that have jobs...
Millionaires' Day was held in Washington last week, this time by the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee in its bituminous coal investigation.* The millionaires were three: Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Richard B. Mellon, a director of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. They contrasted sharply ?"Charlie" Schwab, with his theatrical rags-to-riches air; the grave, earnest heir of John D. Rockefeller, with his air of Christian concern over a social evil; and Banker Mellon, cautious, acquainted with politicians, suspicious of the Committee's motives, uncommunicative, unsympathetic...
...stupid wife whom he married as a sympathetic gesture and grew to despise-and the cream has indeed been polluted. Theo Bissaker stakes everything on his painting (it is awful). There is no market in South Africa for fitful canvases. Finally, he leaves home, finds a job in the coal mines near Johannesburg. When he hears that his mother is threatened with cancer, he blows off three fingers of his right hand so that he can collect insurance money to send his mother to a reliable doctor in England. That is the end of the story...