Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Union leaders still hoped to close the operating mills by strikes shutting off their ore supplies from Michigan, their coal supplies from Pennsylvania and by having automobile workers refuse to use the steel sheets from such mills as Newton Steel. The apparent trend of public opinion in the steel towns not only embittered union men but indicated that attempts would soon be made to open other plants besides the one at Monroe. This really alarmed the Governors of the States concerned. The battle at Monroe had shown what might happen if citizens and unionists were permitted to fight...
...Bethlehem Steel's Cambria Mill at Johnstown, Pa., to cooperate with a strike which Railway Brotherhoods called on a little ten-mile railroad owned by Bethlehem and connecting its plant with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Boss Lewis proceeded to broaden the front still further by calling strikes in 17 coal mines owned by Republic, Youngstown and Bethlehem. The war which the Governors hoped to settle was getting bigger and uglier by the hour, yet up to them to settle it remained. For from the White House came no sign that Franklin Roosevelt would lift a Federal finger...
...Street in the early 1890s was a mechanical contraption that would have been an inspiration to Cartoonist Rube Goldberg. Snaked around the plot in a vast maze of loops, twists and double turns were several miles of pipe, through which was pumped a grimy mixture of water and pulverized coal. Purpose was to demonstrate the possibilities of pumping coal from the mines, an idea which was pronounced feasible in its day by men like Frick and Carnegie, and won an award at the Chicago World's Fair...
...conceived and built this contraption was Wallace Andrews, one of John Davison Rockefeller's associates. Mr. Andrews' coal pipeline was only one product of his fertile imagination. A popular dandy with a flair for equipage and flowered vests, in 1890 he organized Manhattan's first ice manufacturing company. Before that he had started to pipe live steam underground to supply Manhattan buildings with heat. Oddly, the successful steam idea was ridiculed even more than the coal dream, which came to naught. Mr. Andrews burned to death in a fire that leveled his Fifth Avenue mansion...
...Leftist Government of Premier Blum, one year old this week, struck last week at rising Fascist Doriot. By edict of the Ministry of the Interior, he was removed from office as mayor of St. Denis, charged with corruption in the purchase of coal and the awarding of electrical contracts...