Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Founder Sam Gompers, with many another Laborite and politico, impersonal Author Green tells almost nothing. The one anecdote in his 194 pages of record and analysis concerns John D. Rockefeller Jr. (see col. 2) and the ill-famed Ludlow "massacre" at a Rockefeller coal mine in Colorado, where eleven children and two women suffocated when National Guardsmen burned a strikers' camp. Mr. Green was dedicating a monument to the Ludlow martyrs of 1914 when a closed car drew...
...power famine. August steam plant output jumped 21%. September told a similar story. Most acute water shortage was in TVA country, in New England (where August hydro output fell 34%), in the Middle West (where rainfall had been ⅓ to½ of normal). Part of last month's coal crisis (TIME, Oct. 2) was due to utilities' emergency demands. Another reason for the need for new generating capacity is the relatively small recent investment in utilities plants. In 1929 the utilities invested over $900,000,000 in new plant, topping a six-year average of about...
German artillery completely boxed the borderline coal and factory town, cutting all four roads entering the town but failed to follow up with infantry or tank attacks...
Five years ago Earl J. Jones, a drum-chested, muscular, aggressive man, turned up in Zanesville, Ohio.* Without much visible financial backing, he went into the coal-mining business, presently owned several mines, including one of the most modern, all-mechanical excavations in the U. S. To transport his coal along the Muskingum River he bought a barge company...
...Watkins Stadium. In the Army, Major Neyland learned that it is wise to keep the enemy guessing as long as possible. Last week he showed that it works as well on a football field. Most scouted player on his team is George ("Bad News") Cafego, son of a Hungarian coal miner-a rugged, jimber-jawed quarterback who has the reputation of being able to do everything but blow the referee's whistle...