Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blow clear and true, hitting the notes hard and clean. He never had to squeeze for a high one. But for three years after he got out of the Waif's Home (his mother got "a big white man" to spring him), he was too busy driving a coal wagon to blow a note. Then one night Bunk Johnson didn't turn up, and Louis sat in for him (for $1.25 a night) at Matranga's joint on Perdido Street; even the great Joe ("there's mah man") Oliver came around to listen...
...Bell and Sidney. The pay was the unheard of (for Satchmo) sum of $55 a week. Says he: "I had so much money I just plain didn't know what to do with it." They played such old Storyville favorites as Sugar Foot Stomp, Willie the Weeper and Coal Cart Blues, and Louis held the gay crowds spellbound when he sang the relatively new Basin Street Blues...
Died. Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, 70, British coal tycoon and onetime Secretary of State for Air (1931-35) who said in 1938: "Close cooperation with Germany will bring about lasting peace . . ." (he visited Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop) ; of a head injury suffered four years ago in a glider crash; in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. A longtime supporter of Chamberlain until after Munich, Londonderry later campaigned for increased British air strength, won praise for having helped develop Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes...
...almost impossible to hit a ball out of the park in those days," Stuffy muses. "Everything favored the pitchers. The ball was deader than it is today, and the pitchers all chewed tobacco, so that by the eighth or ninth inning the ball was like a chunk of coal...
...definition of "essential industries" is the first necessity. Presumably these are industries where a stoppage, even for one day, would unbalance our economy: transportation, public utilities, coal, perhaps atomic energy projects. Some solution such as that proposed by Professor Slichter seems the most workable now. He recommends presidential power to call a "show-cause" hearing at which the parties would be required to demonstrate why they objected to the regular workings of NLRB-assisted mediation; then provision for a non-political emergency board to study and recommend a solution; and finally an authorization for the President to require...