Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When U. S. railroads load more than 1,000,000 cars of freight in one week, as the American Railway Association reported last week for the fourth time this year, that means that commodities are moving, that business is good. The continuing bituminous (soft) coal strike and the Mississippi river basin flood have prevented more than four 1,000,000-car weeks this year...
...hearing last week President William Johnson Harahan of the C. & O. mentioned that he was trying to buy control of the Virginian Railway for $80,000,000. This is the 545-mile road that Col. Henry H. Rogers of Standard Oil built to tap the soft coal deposits at Deepwater, W. Va. It runs parallel with the C. & O. to Hampton Roads, Va. Last year the Pennsylvania, through its subsidiary, the Norfolk & Western, sought to lease the Virginian for 999 years. But the I. C. C. said no. The C. & O. may have better arguments to present before...
Premier Stanley Baldwin and his Chancellor of Exchequer, Winston Churchill, were discovered to have been flayed roundly in a new novel by H. G. Wells, to be published in September, as a contribution to the country's coal-mining turmoil...
...Stoking coal on an ocean steamship has commonly been regarded as one of the least attractive of all occupations--the sword that hangs over the head of stowa ways who are caught, the last resort of those who are bent on working their way to Europe by any means. The English girls who, bored on her passage to America, asked permission to work the full length of the voyage as a stoker, has set a precedent, not the least amazing feature of which is that her request was granted. Dressed in overalls, she wielded the shovel for nine days...
...last mists of doubt concerning the abilities of their sex. To the average man, however, it is an occasion for wonder if not for alarm. It is doubtful if among all the men who have crossed their Atlantic, one has offered, just for the fun of it, to shovel coal; what is more, it is doubtful if one ever will, unless driven to it by the similar activities of the girls on board. It is a new, and unpleasant possibility. Is stoking in the hold to the other diversions of a sea-journey? Echo answers, not if it can possibly...