Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coal shortage, prime factor in most of Britain's troubles, was mostly to blame in December. Last week the Cabinet discussed employing displaced Poles already in Britain, to work the man-short mines...
...emerging Communist strength in Latin America. In Chile, the Communists, thanks to their balance of power in Congress, had helped to elect President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla. President Videla rewarded them with three Cabinet posts, two of which clinched their control of Chile's vital nitrate, copper and coal unions, and of agriculture...
Wrote Cowles: "We entirely agree that Exeter must stop catering to a single social and economic class. . . . But it is totally fallacious to reason that Exeter must teach a boy a mass of archeology or science merely because he comes from a coal-mining town. . . . This new curriculum [will] lower Exeter to the level of a vocational institution whose graduates are skilled in the business of doing, not the business of thinking...
...additional $2 million which Young needed to complete the deal.) For this small amount of money, Bob Young got close to $2 billion worth of assets, on the books. The assets included either large stock interests or outright control of a dozen railroads with 23,000 miles of track, coal mines, trucking companies, peach orchards. And some trouble...
...many of Young's deals ever since. It is actually Kirby's holdings, some 550,000 shares of Alleghany, which give Young his control. In short, Kirby has supplied the cash, Young the plan to use it. Partner Kolbe, now president of Chicago's United Electric Coal Cos., has long since sold...