Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concrete platforms. Their rice cooked in big iron pots over wood fires. Grimy refugees hovered nearby with begging bowls. Petty traders, going uprailway to barter cloth and matches for sesame oil and tobacco, swarmed with their bundles on the rooftops of overpacked third class coaches, on couplings, on the coal tender, on the catwalk around the locomotive boiler...
Four nights later, a brawler from Pennsylvania's coal mines got his big chance in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Joe Baksi had shed a lot of blubber (from 257 Ibs. down to 210½), but he was still 32½ pounds heavier than his Negro opponent, Ezzard Charles of Cincinnati. For most of the ten rounds, Ezzard buzzed around Baksi like a bumblebee around a bull. He kept stinging Baksi with lefts & rights that didn't seem to hurt much-though he opened a bad cut above his left eye. At 2:33 of the eleventh...
Even the booming oil industry had done such a good job of expanding to meet the fuel shortage that oil was plentiful: prices of gasoline and fuel oil were being reduced. Soft coal was also piling up, partly because of a drop in exports. Many Kentucky and West Virginia mines had cut back to a three-or four-day work week. Said Bert A. Astrup, assistant general sales manager for Shell Oil Co.: "We've rounded the Horn and we're in a buyers' market...
...arranged opposite each other in pairs, not in strides, the creature must have hopped. And the hops were short-only about a foot long. It must have been a clumsy monster that hopped sluggishly under the giant ferns and spreading horsetail trees which later became Pennsylvania's famous coal. But it was doing all right for its period: vertebrates had only recently learned how to live on the land at all. Short hops were a big improvement on slow, fishlike floundering...
Round & Round. This week all these items were tossed in the firebox of Drew Pearson's clangorous Washington Merry-Go-Round. Such fuel, some chestnut-sized, some no bigger than pea coal, and every now & then a nugget as big as a man's hand, has kept the carrousel spinning for 16 years. Next week, the column and its author will share a milestone: on Dec. 13, Pearson's 51st birthday, the Merry-Go-Round will start its 17th year. Under a newly signed contract, Pearson can be pretty sure of four more years as the world...