Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor "Bossy" Gillis was not Newburyport's first eccentric hero. Late in the 18th century, an illiterate tanner named Timothy Dexter, who had made a fortune in Continentals, moved to Newburyport and there performed commercial prodigies. He shipped mittens and warming pans to the West Indies, coal cargoes to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He cornered the whale- bone market. His profits startled...
...Edsel Ford said: "the New York show is built around this one idea-a visual demonstration of the operation of the Ford industries, from the raw materials to the finished product. We have stated frequently that we do not charge a profit on the materials from our iron mines, coal mines, gas plants, blast furnaces, rolling mills and other operations which enter into the construction of our automobiles, trucks, airplanes and other manufactured products...
...studied this feeling as it colors the loves, hatreds, hungers of poor people. In Iron and Smoke, Humphrey Mallard, heir to a baronetcy, loves his houses better than Isabel Halnaker, the mistress he relinquishes so that, to save his estates, he may marry Jenny Bastow whose father owns coal mines. After her husband's death, Jenny becomes the intimate friend of Isabel, whom, she realizes, her husband had loved more than herself but less than his lands. Then she watches her son grow up, go to war, come back to marry a frivolous pretty girl and tear...
Rollo Holliday, Harvard undergraduate, was found early yesterday in a shovel of coal in the Boston and Maine railroad yards in Somerville. He was in a state which was pronounced by an ambulance surgeon to boarder closely on torpor, but more experienced, if less technical, observers asserted that he was merely out. No further explanation of this term was offered. It was accepted without question by the police...
...walking through the cellar one day, when I noticed that one of my coal bins had been completely filled with thousands of copies of some pamphlet. This was a clear hint, which I immediately seized. I cancelled all my coal orders for that month and used the pamphlets. They were all new, bore no signs that anyone had ever opened them. In this way I saved the price of 44 tons of coal, which will keep me in penwipers for the rest of my life. You may be interested to know that I was the one who originated the term...