Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dumped into the pockets by opening the hopper bottoms of the cars. The ore goes, whenever a freighter is ready for it, from the pockets into the hold via steel spouts hinged to the sides of the dock. Cardumpers such as you mention are, however, used to load coal into these same freighters at lower lake ports...
...with full steam and a clear track. By last week the Senate had averaged less than three hours' work per day, meeting on only about half the available days. The House had done little better. Between them they had passed just two major measures-the Neutrality and Guffey Coal Acts-and both were revampings of earlier statutes. Even in the matter of routine appropriations they had finished only four bills, with ten yet to go. Experienced observers were predicting last week that outside of the necessary money bills and some decision on Court rejuvenation, all the rest...
...Lehigh Valley Railroad, whose 1,300 mi. of track in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey run through some of the finest scenery and richest anthracite resources in the U. S., received 26% more from coal shipments last year than in 1935. Since the Lehigh is primarily a coal-carrier, this meant Recovery. With coal & steel booming on merrily, last week rugged Edward Eugene Loomis, president of the road for 20 years, retired to become board chairman. Elected to succeed him was Scottish-born Duncan John Kerr, a rail-road man since 1904, when he arrived...
British Columbians were last week more optimistic than the Dominion. The Yukon's $200,000,000 spate of gold has now become a mere $100,000 yearly trickle, but chilly Yukon's 207,076 sq. mi. are rich with uncut timber, unexploited copper, lead, coal, fish, game. These resources have been landlocked by the lack of railroads, which can presumably be promoted more easily in Vancouver than in Ottawa...
Last week the Association of American Railroads reported that claims resulting from freight car thefts in the U. S. and Canada totaled $688,792 in 1936, lowest for any year on record. Biggest losses were in coal and coke, stolen not only by organized gangs but by individuals who needed fuel. Professional train robbers concentrated on tobacco products, jettisoned $125,000 worth during the year. Railroad police kept their record clear on liquor shipments, in which no highjacking cases have been reported since Repeal...