Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pending the findings and final recommendations of the Senate investigators, President Coolidge reiterated his opinion that the seat of trouble in the bituminous coal industry is too many mines and too many miners. He agreed with Senators Gooding and Wheeler, Miner John L. Lewis and many an operator, that amendment of the anti-trust laws will probably be necessary to let the operators make agreements in salutory restraint of their own trade-but not until miners and operators shall have reached production agreements among themselves...
...River, and ordering the Department of Agriculture to experiment with making cheap nitrate fertilizers there, for sale at cost to farmers. ¶ Rejected by 39 votes to 29 the renomination of John Jacob Esch of Wisconsin to the Interstate Commerce Commission, after hot intersectional debate on his voting in coal-rate cases...
...Warden, chairman of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., announced losses for 1927 of $1,880,596 (1926 losses were $2,114,676); told stockholders that the mines had operated 97% full time capacity during...
...effete, lazy, clever yellow freedmen, there were 40,000 whites-French planters, who danced and tippled in the big houses and ruled the island. Some of them often gathered in the billiard room of the Hotel de la Couronne where their scores were marked by a coal black nigger boy called Henry Christophe. He listened to their conversation, his clever gentle eyes following their shots with melancholy speculation. "They talked of their Negro mistresses and of the comely mulatto whores who supplied Cap null with whatever its quiet, oppressive nights had of glamour, passion, and forgetful laughter. . . ." Henry Christophe never...
...gasoline from petroleum with a consideration of the fundamental scientific principles involved. In connection with the economics of gasoline, Professor Conant will discuss the future supply of petroleum, conservation of petroleum resources by development of high compression gasoline, and the possibilities of motor fuel from alcohol, shale, and coal...