Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heat Mines. An unassuming, bespectacled gentleman, John L. Hodgson, mining engineer, asked his hearers to realize how crude were the surface scrapings made by the earliest coal "miners" in comparison with the vast black honeycombs modern machinery digs-and then to realize how picayune were present-day coal mines compared to the shafts that might some day be driven, 30 miles into the earth's crust, to tap a store of heat 31 million times as great as all the heat stored in the world's aggregate coal deposits. A 30-mile bore, one foot in diameter, could...
...completed the Free State will have a large, cheap source of power and there will then, so say observers, be no reason why the industrialists should not meet competition scientifically by modernizing their machinery, much needed in the cotton, poplin and woolen industries. Moves are afoot to exploit scientifically coal and other minerals, and recently a Belgian syndicate received a $5.000,000 subsidy to grow beets for the sugar industry...
There are three established systems connecting the eastern seaboard to the Mississippi River and anastomosing over the coal and industrial regions between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes. Those systems are the Pennsylvania, the New York Central and the Baltimore & Ohio...
...sixth project was developed but recently by Frank E. Taplin of Cleveland, who mines coal in the Pittsburgh region. He controls the short and profitable Pittsburgh & West Virginia; wants to buy control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, control of which John D. Rockefeller Sr. recently sold to the N. Y. C., B. & O. and Nickel Plate. Promoter Taplin would also control the Western Maryland over which he would reach tidewater with Pittsburgh coal and Great Lakes grain and iron...
...discovery, in a coal mine on the windswept mountain slopes near Billings, Mont., of a fossil molar tooth of human appearance, mixed in with fossil clams and lizards known to belong in the Eocene period, 50 to 60 million years ago, caused a great deal of newspaper talk last autumn. But experts were inclined to view the molar as that of euprotogonia, doglike Eocene quadruped with manlike teeth in its bearlike-horselike head...