Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...events of deepest portent reverberated in the news. One was the still undigested fact of Russia's atomic bomb. The other was the shutdown in coal and steel, foundations of the nation's industry and its economic wellbeing. But the U.S., which had often been accused of reacting too violently to disturbing news, seemed to be accepting both events with almost studied indifference...
...scrabbly hill country of central Pennsylvania, where coal runs rich to the surface, a man could almost breathe the trouble in the air. Across five counties the peace was broken by Americans fighting Americans...
...black-scarred coal strips and tipples of 70 independent coal mines, owners and a scattering of non-union diggers worked warily, with loaded shotguns and rifles close at hand. A convoy of 15 loaded coal trucks was ambushed in hilly Centre County, attacked with rifle fire and stones before the drivers could rumble on to safety. At Grassflat, a $10,000 tipple of the Junedale Coal Co. was blown up by a 50-lb. charge of dynamite. One non-union mine owner drove off marauding strikers with a brace of .45 automatics; another was stabbed during an argument with U.M.W...
Guns & Dynamite. The trouble reached to other rebellious patches of John L. Lewis' empire as picketing union miners tried to repair small defects in the weapon that had always served them best-a nationwide coal strike. A Hawkes Coal Co. tipple near Morgantown, Ky. was dynamited. In a lonely stretch of northwest Alabama, six brothers named Preskitt stocked their 150-ton-a-day strip mine with all the weapons they could find and waited grimly for something to happen...
Since his undergraduate years, he has combined a career in the business and administrative world with academic positions. From the time of his graduation in 1912 until 1928, he was first in the coal business and later worked for an investment concern...