Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cooling-off period for strikes involving the national welfare (such as coal strikes), during which a fact-finding board would make recommendations for settlement. The recommendations, however, would be binding on nobody...
...with prominent cheek bones, it had begun when he was 15 and lived in Warsaw with his mother, two sisters, a brother, his cobbler father. When the Germans came, Abraham fled to Russia. The Germans caught up with him again at Stalino, where he had found a job pushing coal cars in the mines. With 500 others, Abraham was marched away to a field outside town, ordered to stand in front of an anti-tank ditch and stripped of his clothes. He fainted, and fell too soon to hear the staccato of the German machine guns. When he awoke...
...They worked in a big kitchen that was white-tiled to the ceiling, waited on Steelmaker Carnegie and his guests in the walnut-paneled library, took care of the vast heating plant. In the basement there is still a mining car, with its own track and turntable, to take coal from the bunker to the stoking floor. On cold days, it took a ton and a half of coal to heat the place...
Porter was born in Peru, Ind. (pop. 15,000), in the corn country 75 miles north of Indianapolis, but his beginnings were hardly simple. He was the only child of a prosperous druggist, and the grandson and heir of coal and lumber Tycoon J. 0. Cole, who was worth something like $7,000,000. Though it took Cole years to satisfy his oh-such-a-hungry yearning for success on Broadway, getting there was not much more difficult than what a Porter lyric describes as "a trip to the moon on gossamer wings."* His comfortable itinerary included stops at Worcester...
Chile's mountain riches will supply the raw materials: ore from Bethlehem's El Tofo mines, 500 miles up the coast; coal from the undersea veins of nearby Lota; power from Fomento's hydroelectric plant at neighboring El Abánico. Only limestone has been a problem. To get it, a crew of 130 men, with rat-hungry cats, is now setting up installations on rainy, rat-infested Madre de Dios Island, 900 miles down the coast...