Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President conferred with Michael Gallagher, coal manager for the vast Van Sweringen interests, meditated on the soft coal strike (see p. 10); did nothing...
Last week from the dank black recesses of the mines, great brown rats, black with coal-dust, scampered. Up long, inclined shafts they crawled, their beady eyes blinking in the light. Not long before, the miners, their faces smudged a ghastly grey, had straggled wearily up the shafts. The soft coal strike began in the central competitive area, including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania, and in the adjoining states of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma...
About 200,000 union miners left their jobs, most of them with money in the bank, some prepared to raise chickens and vegetables, others ready to work in factories. Manufacturers and railroadmen, who are the largest consumers of bituminous coal, refused to be alarmed. Ninety million tons are above ground, in storage, in freight cars-and, then too, the non-union mines in West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee produce 65% of the nation's soft coal needs...
...first time in many a year, nobody outside the coal industry cared what happened to the coal people. But however languid and reluctant the miners, however nonchalant the operators, the fight is one to the death...
White Flannels (Louise Dresser). Mother Politz insists that her boy Frank keep his pants clean and go to college. She insists that he drop his puppy love affair with his coal-mining-town sweetheart; that he be a football hero; that he evade the college vampire. When he seems to fail in her ambitions, Louise Dresser screws up her face marvelously and weeps colloquially. When he comes from a coal mine rescue in his white flannels and fondles his original sweetheart, his mother beams. Production is an evangelical hymn played on a portable melodeon-staccato...