Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coal miners and their heroic strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.), the policy of despairing resistance which they have adopted may be heroic but it is not war. . . . The coal miners are sightless Samsons groping to throw down the pillars of a temple the crashing of which may engulf this thing we call British civilization...
...Coal Counsel. With these keynotes sounded, the conference listened-not without interruptions from extremists-to the reigning "old guard" of the party: 1) One-time Premier Macdonald: "We have consulted as to the best means of helping the miners with the heads of other unions, and I am perfectly appalled at the widespread unemployment of union men. . . . The solution of the problem now lies in political rather than industrial action. Had my Government [Jan.-Nov., 1924] remained in office another year we would have introduced a bill for nationalization of the mines. We must work toward that end. . . ."; 2) James...
...accepted it as a fact, that Chemist Audibert of Paris had succeeded in making synthetic petroleum, not as a laboratory curiosity, but by a process commercially practicable. This announcement was made and received as being far more important than other fuel-substitute discoveries lately made- coal dust in the U. S. and Germany, fagots in France (Time, Oct. 11). Submitting oxygen, hydrogen and coal to a pressure of 200 atmospheres, introducing a secret catalytic agent and filtering the result, M. Audibert had indubitably obtained a heavy viscous fluid which readily refined to kerosene, gasoline and the usual by-products...
...insurrection in the Philippines and wrote a complete constitution and code of statutes for the Islands; he acted for the U. S. in the internation dispute over the Boxer Rebellion; he (not President Roosevelt as is popularly thought) had the biggest role in the settlement of the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902; he reorganized the Army, creating a general staff and chief of staff; he smoothed out the Alaskan boundary dispute with Great Britain...
...Germany, turned last week to Halsey, Stuart & Co., A. G. Becker & Co., and Newman, Saunders & Co., all of Manhattan, for a $25,000,000 loan at 7%. With the money he will pay off all his debts to German banks and form two companies-one to operate his family coal industry with its accessories of railroads, ships and river barges, the other to own all the shares of the firm and to handle all other businesses still remaining in the family. (When the Stinnes financial debacle came in 1924, soon after the death of Hugo der Erste, it was thought...