Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rudimentary protectionists' economics ran somewhat as follows: "Now, U. S., do you know that you only make up a little over 6% of the world's population, and yet you are so industrious that you consume between 37% and 75% of the world's production of coal, iron, copper, rubber, petroleum and many another commodity? The reason for this phenomenon is simple. Your industries which manufacture competitive products are protected by the tariff. Hence your labor is kept busy, your standard of living is high and you can buy from other countries...
...home," declared President Harry C. Abell of the Association, "has ever been heated efficiently with coal. It is either hot, cold or indifferent." He predicted universal household heating by thermostat-regulated furnaces whose pilot lights would only need to be lighted in the autumn, turned off in spring...
...oilmen were not, however, cast down by any vision of a great market lost to them suddenly of in the proximate future. Chemist Audibert's process had indeed been shown commercially practicable, but only for a nation with coal in sufficient abundance to permit the diversion of millions of tons annually from furnaces to carburetors. To supply France with synthetic gasoline by the Audibert process would require three or four million tons of coal per annum, All this would have to be imported as France has not enough coal as it is. In terms of coldest economy, the logical...
...trolley going into a mine, hard work, devotion. No one can say that Frick did not work hard. No one can say that he might not have been successful with no luck at all. But the fact remains that, in the panic of 1873, a lot of Pennsylvania bituminous coal lands were put up for sale at a fraction of their value and Frick (with money borrowed from his relatives-he was but 24 then) bought them and became a millionaire, the greatest producer of coke in the world; formed the H. C. Frick Coke Co., operator...
...Water, coal, pressure and a secret...