Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rate of increase in her productive capacity was more remarkable than its quantitive increase; between 1936 and 1938 coal production jumped 25%; steel production 25%; zinc production 15%; cement production...
...coal industry was under pressure to supply domestic customers anxious to pile up stocks at pre-war prices; needy belligerents and neutrals who formerly bought from England or Germany. Last week the Norfolk & Western Railway which taps the mines of West Virginia and Kentucky carried 20,845 cars of coal, just 48 cars less than its all time record in the boom week of March 27, 1937. Any further increases in production are limited by: 1) the fact that many mines have not now the man power or machine power to shift to a six-day week; 2) such coal...
...Coal: Britain $15,196,000; Germany...
Reason for the sudden change: the advent of World War II changed the minds of Marion's customers in the latent coal-copper-iron business. They wanted shovels -wanted them fast. In ten days Marion got $1,000,000 worth of orders (one-sixth of a normal year's business...
Live canaries, which used to be carried down into coal mines as sentinels against firedamp, are not often stationed in modern chemical laboratories. Nevertheless, Dr. Harold Clayton Urey and his coworkers* at Columbia University have kept canaries within sniffing distance of their apparatus for months. Reason: the chemists were working with two deadly poisons, hydrogen cyanide (used in some U. S. States to execute condemned criminals) and sodium cyanide. If these began to leak from the apparatus, the sensitive little birds would collapse in time for the men to take action. Pacific, round-faced, gum-chewing Dr. Urey...