Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Momentously the Cabinet announced it has completed drafting the bill by which on July 1, 1942 all coal in the United Kingdom is to become the property of the State. The present private owners were asked some years ago at what figure they would be willing to sell out, replied $750,000,000. The new bill is to force them to sell out for $330,000,000 and its expected passage will provide another $50,000,000 to compensate them for special losses expected to arise in so huge a transfer...
...Church of England is today the largest recipient of royalties from British coal, draws some $1,850,000 yearly, while the Duke of Hamilton gets $565,000 and the Marquess of Bute $545,000. The Church is not expected to protest as Conservative Socialism cuts its revenues, wisely figuring that, if it gets as much as Mr. Chamberlain wants to give, it should in these times thank...
...genial smile, seemed a fine figure of a man. Twirling a big walking stick, Father Balaban made a point of circulating in his parish to collect contributions for the church, often turned up at night in Serbian haunts, where he smoked and drank as heartily as anyone. A onetime coal miner in Indiana, ordained a priest after attending a Russian seminary in Pennsylvania, Father Balaban had gone to St. Louis in 1918, remained for ten years, returned at the congregation's begging in 1934, after a sojourn in Manhattan. Holy Trinity paid its priest $100 a month, which seemed...
...Fair: "Not all the keen wits of all the 110 publishers frantically pursuing manuscripts can discover 10,000 books worth printing in one year. . . ." In bringing out books they know they cannot sell profitably, publishers have likened their dilemma to that of a man shoveling on a dying fire coal that he knows contains a lot of slate. If he stops shoveling, the fire will go out; if he keeps on, the slate may smother it. Only one book in ten sells 20,000 copies, only six novels in ten sell 2,500 copies, and publishers lose money on novels...
What it takes to be fashionable is what Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, 33-year-old son of a London coal & lumber merchant, possesses in a degree so extreme as to make plain people squirm. To the fastidious world of Mayfair, however, Photographer Beaton's delicate infusions of the cockeyed into the swank have long seemed divine. After a gala summer, including a trip to Cande to make exclusive portraits for Vogue of his friend the Duchess of Windsor and a visit to his friend Mrs. Harrison ("Best Dressed") Williams at her villa on Capri, slim Cecil Beaton...