Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inflation reached the stage where even the weight of the lowly copper has been inflated? Or maybe you included the fog, coal smoke and dust, dirt and other elements that are present in the New York air, when you weighed your pennies [TIME, May 19]. Here in the Great State of Texas . . . pennies weigh only 138 to the pound; i.e., 70 pounds have a value of only...
...could not for long avoid the crucial issues of labor and taxes. At week's end John L. Lewis sharpened one of them still further when negotiations over a new coal contract broke up without results. With such an example before him, the President might well convince himself that the pending bill did not overly disturb the rights of labor. Besides, Congress would probably pass it over his veto. But a tax cut was directly up to Truman. The Republicans did not have the votes to beat a veto there...
...student in the U.S., Zik stretched his father's money by working at odd jobs. Besides working in Gammon's Restaurant on Pittsburgh's Liberty Avenue and as a sparring partner for one of the thumb-poking Zivic brothers, he once unwittingly signed on as a coal miner, found himself strikebreaking. He still thinks the U.S. "a country of opportunities for ambitious, energetic young people...
Nowadays, whenever Britain's imperial eye turns south towards Africa, there stands Zik astride a large slice of rich Nigerian cocoa and palm nut holdings, coal and tin and bauxite deposits. Zik has a handhold on a rich chunk of the Empire and he will...
...poor territory, but Bracy knew what its oil men, coal miners, farmers and railroaders wanted, stocked it for them. Sales, helped by the war boom, went up; so did Bracy's bonus. By 1944 Bracy was getting a bonus of $196,394 plus $25,000 salary. Stockholders began asking questions; so did other branch managers, cramped in straight salaries. Bracy was rocking the Kroger boat...