Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy and Theodore Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary. It was during preparations for War against Spain. Secretary John D. Long took a day off. Subordinates telephoned in panic. The Assistant Secretary, they said, was giving orders right and left, disrupting plans, sending off ships where there was no coal, coal where were no ships. Secretary Long hurried ..back to his office, rescinded Assistant Secretary Roosevelt's orders, called Assistant Secretary Roosevelt in and explained some things to him. "After considering the matter for a few moments, Roosevelt admitted to my father he guessed he had speeded up a bit too much...
...Lignite is wood-coal, a brown mineral composition midway between peat and bituminous coal. It is used in Germany principally in connection with the generation of electricity...
Mexican Scabs. Delegates from Arizona and California railed bitterly against the streams of Mexican immigrants which, not restricted by any U. S. quota law, flood the southwestern labor market and supplant union labor in times of strikes as far north as the Pennsylvania coal fields. Other delegates were less deeply perturbed by the Mexican "menace" and the convention voted only to urge the Mexican Government to restrict its emigration voluntarily...
...other invention is an explosive which consists of finely divided carbonaceous material (coal, root, etc.) which liquid air, under cautious control, ignites. It is "cheaper and more volatile than dynamite...
...picking on" Secretary Mellon. The genesis of these reports was that, with the razing of some old buildings across 15th Street from the Treasury Building in Washington (where the new Department of Commerce building is to rise), rodents and insects were noticed in unusual numbers near the treasury coal and trash vaults. Bug-catcher's were put on guard with "sweet air," a special gas, to kill the roaches. Rat-catchers patrolled the treasury basements by night with small rifles...