Word: coaling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Coal. Hiram Johnson is in the Senate to represent California, but his eyes squinted with emotion, his white crest shook with vehemence, as he asked last week for an investigation of bituminous coal mining in Pennsylvania...
...story as the Senate had heard in years, a story of "dark evils of bloody warfare, sickness, suffering, hardship, privation, want and hunger. . . ." It was Senator Hiram Warren Johnson of California describing, not without politico-oratorical flourishes, the condition which Pennsylvania permitted its two-and-a-half-year-old coal strike to reach this winter (TIME...
Married. Ely Ney, famed pianist, onetime wife of Conductor Willem Van Hoogstraten; to Coal Dealer Paul Allais, of Chicago; in Los Angeles...
...smoky Bethlehem (Bethlehem Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet of "Black Diamond." At Mauch Chunk the main line gradient becomes so steep that a "helper" engine must help pull on the trains. Thence the roadbed becomes a chute between cliffs, trees, coal tupples and culm banks into Wilkes...
...revolt of the peasants finds General Dolgorucki in the coal car of a railroad train, where taunting revolutionists are making him expiate his onetime pride and arrogance. Saved by the girl, he jumps off the train in time to see the long line of cars, one of which contains his dearly beloved, crash through a broken bridge into drowned and dismal wreckage...