Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would-be engineer, Chen was chiefly interested in the U.S. Working his way, he studied for a year at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Mines. After his M.S. thesis, Application of Mechanical and Electrical Devices to Coal Mining in China, Chen took an even more advanced course. He signed up as a coal miner in Pittsburgh and Scranton collieries,* held a card in John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers...
...countries I visited, export is the key to future prosperity, and coal the key to present production problems. That's oversimplified, of course, but in a shortage-ridden Europe almost every shortage, except possibly food, stems back to coal -and even there its effect on the production of farm equipment and foreign exchange is sharply felt...
...problems which hardly warranted such good spirits. The President would soon have to face the ticklish problem of vetoing or not vetoing the labor bill with which Congress is now in labor. Just over the horizon John Lewis was laying for him: on June 30 the Government's coal contract expires. Foreign relations were getting no simpler. But Harry Truman put off all such serious matters but one-a request to Congress for $25,000,000 to pay for a loyalty checkup of Government employees...
...first London merchant to buy U.S. style full-page newspaper ads and to boast of such unique department-store services as wart removal, pipe cleaning, coal delivery, cricket-bat oiling, wig making, expert umbrella rolling...
...hushed splendor of a Manhattan museum (the Frick) that was once a coal baron's Fifth Avenue palace, some of the most serious U.S. poets and critics gathered. They had come to hear, and honor, the acknowledged first poet of their day. T. S. Eliot, making one of his rare U.S. appearances, delivered a new lecture on his old enemy, John Milton...