Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that fiscal year the value of crops and animal products, deducting crops fed to animals, used for seed and wasted, was $12,080,000,000. The previous fiscal year it had been $12,670,000,000. Cause: Low cotton prices last year and depression in the prairie states. The coal business had not been prosperous, nor the textile business...
...Aguilar conference filed notice of a strike with the Colorado Industrial Commission, as required by law. The Commission investigated the conference and pronounced it unrepresentative of all the coal miners of Colorado. The conference offered to submit its demands to a referendum of all the miners at mass meetings. Then the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.'s company union, and other local labor bodies, discharged from their ranks all I. W. W. sympathizers. The Industrial Commission pronounced the I. W. W. an outlaw organization and its proposed strike illegal...
...scornful, "Flaming Milka" marched to one mine after another in the southern Colorado district, day after day adding to her following. "Don't work, men!" she cried. "A strike is on. Stand by your comrades." Pointing at mine-guards with fixed bayonets, she would cry: "They can't dig coal with bayonets...
Republic Iron & Steel is itself a consolidation, accomplished in 1899, of 24 iron & steel companies. Once it made only steel bars. Now it makes diversified products. It has plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Alabama and Illinois, and iron or coal mines in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Alabama and Pennsylvania. With vast steelmaking facilities, it lacks sufficient mills to finish its products. John Alexander Topping is chairman; Cyrus Stephen Eaton a director since last April. Mr. Eaton's joining Republic Iron & Steel was the first definite step towards last week's merger. He is Trumbull Steel's chairman...
...agreed to limit their production in accordance with the volume of demand; they have made money. Whereas until 1924 Great Britain exported more iron & steel than any other European country, in 1925 France took the lead. Last year Germany became leader (5,348 metric tons). However, England's coal strike last year (TIME, May 10, 1926 et seq.) had a disastrous effect on her trade...