Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just eight months ago King Edward VIII trudged through the coal dust of South Wales "Distressed Areas" on what the British press called his "errand of mercy" (TIME, Nov. 30). After looking at the treeless, blackened hillsides, the abandoned coal mines, the pitiful brick hovels, the haggard faces of the inhabitants, more than 45,000 of whom were unemployed and only 2,000 employed at the time, His Majesty exclaimed publicly: "Something must be done for Wales...
...Queen Elizabeth undertook to visit South Wales, it was something of a test case whether they would express themselves about what they saw. As a matter of fact nothing has been "done for Wales." The Government do not claim to have brought about the pick-up in Welsh coal exports which has reduced the registered unemployed figure to 33,000, increased the employed to 32,-ooo. The price of coal still averages about $4.00 per ton, and the average South Wales employed miner still earns about $2.40 daily...
...converge toward a hill crowned with a church set against a little pile of distant cumulus clouds. For a modern counterpart of this scene St. Nicholas parishioners can look on the other wall, opposite the Crucifixion. Under a black, apocalyptic sky, a young miner lies on ground covered with coal rubble. Weeping women in violet robes at his head and feet avert their eyes as a group of men with picks descend into a smoky middle background. A headline of the Croatian newspaper on which the dead miner is sprawled reads: "The Immigrant Mother Raises Her Sons for American Industry...
...Died. Edward Eugene Loomis, 72, longtime (1917-37) president of the Lehigh Valley R. R. Co.; at Murray Hill, N. J. Born on a farm in Herkimer County, N. Y., he entered railroading immediately after graduation. Through his handling of coal strikes, he was made senior vice president of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western in 1902; in 1917 took over the Lehigh Valley and ran it through the World War as the second largest carrier of anthracite...
...silver and furniture. The only time she sees him again is when he comes back to collect the money from the last of her land. At 35, Famie looks like an old woman; kinfolk have disowned her for selling her land; her only friend is a big, serious-minded, coal-black field hand...