Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp...
...behalf of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, I am calling your attention to the following statement contained on page 10 of your issue of February 13, 1928, to wit:-"The day after Senator Johnson spoke in the Senate, a band of Negroes, hired by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company, swaggered down a road near Horning, Pa., and fired revolver volleys into the windows of a school filled with strikers' children. One of the strikebreakers, arrested, said he had been paid $25 by the coal company to shoot up strikers in their barracks. This was reported as a typical incident...
John Markle, famed coal king, multimillionaire, purchased the largest apartment in the world. Located in Manhattan, it will include 41 rooms, 16 baths, John Markle, servants, and many pieces of old, expensive furniture. Famed for his manners and mustache, both rough and blunt, Mr. Markle once said that he was successful in finance because "I'd rather fight than eat." Asked what he planned to do with his 41 rooms, Mr. Markle replied: "It's nobody's damn business...
...federation of six States composing the Commonwealth of Australia, created Jan. 1, 1901. It occupies the north-east quarter of the continent. Captain Cook discovered it in 1770. Forests cover half its surface. Its chief source of wealth is in minerals; gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, tungsten, and coal are mined...
...Labor Bureau Inc., specialists in economic research for labor unions, last week estimated that throughout the U. S. 4,000,000 persons lacked work. One-third (250,000) of the soft coal miners of the country had no jobs. "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, who in 1894 led Coxey's workless "Army of the Commonweal of Christ" afoot from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, last week at Manhattan said that on a tour from Boston to Minneapolis since last June he had found "25% of the factories idle in the territory covered." He is considered a reliable, although theatrical, observer...