Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since last summer. The first one just quit, the second one was shot to death, the third one quit after his assistant was shot and wounded, the fourth one quit after being arrested for drunkenness. Evarts, in bloody Harlan County, is a dry town in a coal-mining district and Evarts bootleggers do a good, steady business...
...grown what Dr. Wiener considers the most startling (and ominous) development in human evolution. Engines and production machines replace human muscles; control mechanisms replace human brains. Even a thermostat thinks, after a fashion. It acts like a man who decides that the room is too cold and puts more coal in the stove...
...Mathies Mine, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. put to work last week a machine that set up the rumble of revolution in coal mining. In 60 seconds, the "Continuous Miner" of the Joy Manufacturing Co. (TIME, April 5) ripped two tons of coal off the pitface and loaded it into a shuttle train...
...already delivered 13 machines, expects to turn out 300 more for which it has orders by the end of 1949. Joy's president, J. D. A. Morrow, and many of his customers are confident that they will "create a new era in coal mining...
Would the new era mean cheaper coal for consumers? There was some doubt; John L. Lewis' miners would have to be taken into account. Due partly to the warm weather, 69 million tons of coal were above ground at last count; in the piles was enough fuel for 45 days' normal consumption. Lewis was reported to be thinking of ordering his miners off on a holiday to cut down the surplus. Thus Lewis would have an easier time next spring if, as expected, he demands a 30-hour week (with 40 hours' pay). The consumer, as usual...