Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Negroes from North Carolina, coal miners from Indiana, a detachment from the Chicago Board of Trade, another composed of Oklahoma Indians, a mud-covered dozen of doughboys from Chattanooga (advertising war's discomfort), these and others to the number of 35,000 marched and countermarched last week in Louisville, Ky. at the American Legion's eleventh annual convention, a record-breaker both for spectators and for excitement...
...stands for $500 in gold which the banker is supposed to have in his bank. Each of the other five players is dealt 20 cards from a 100 card deck divided into ten suits. Each suit stands for an industry, such as Coal Mine, Brickfield, Wagon Works, Loom, Pottery, Saw Mill, etc. During the course of the game, the Banker attempts to buy from the players all the cards of all the suits. As soon as he can absorb one entire suit, or establish a monopoly in that industry, he can add that suit, or that industry, to the assets...
...quantity. The energy falling on a square mile of earth on a bright sunny day with a clear atmosphere is equivalent to two or three million horsepower. According to Dr. Abbott the sun energy reaching the whole earth each day equals the caloric value of 507 billion tons of coal...
...Motor Co., goes back to 1913 when at the age of 24 he became a salesman in the Atlanta office. Previous Woodruff occupations had included being an apprentice and machinist in a foundry, a shipping clerk and city salesman in a fire extinguisher company, a purchasing agent for a coal and ice concern. Once with White, Salesman Woodruff's route became less devious, more rapid. After being made assistant to President White, he became general manager and vice president, relinquishing the managership when in 1923 he became president of Coca-Cola...
Anthracite. Economic professors, wanting to give an example of the havoc substitutes can play to a nicely adjusted supply and demand situation, always point to the anthracite industry. Gas, oil, bituminous (soft) coal, and Welsh anthracite have proven sturdy competitors to U. S. anthracite. Perhaps to find strength in union, the Glen Alden Coal Co. (W. W. Inglis, president) last week announced plans to purchase the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. (Charles F. Huber, president). Two of the oldest and largest of anthracite companies, their combined annual production will be over 13,000,000 tons, greatest of any unit...