Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ROBERT L. COFFEY JR., 30, is a onetime coal miner. He resigned his Air Force lieutenant-colonelcy and his post as air attache at the U.S. Embassy in Chile to run for office in a traditionally Republican district of western Pennsylvania. With little money or organization, but with labor's help in ringing doorbells, curly-haired Bob Coffey, a veteran of 97 fighter combat flights in Europe, strafed five-term Congressman Harve Tibbott's isolationist record. Coffey is one of eleven new Democratic Congressmen from Pennsylvania ; President Truman had campaigned in all but one of their districts...
...BURNSIDE, 49, is a professor of political science at Marshall College in Huntington, W.Va., who failed to win in 1946. This time, with coal miners out in full cry to show John L. Lewis that he could not tell them how to vote, Burnside and three other Democrats toppled Republican incumbents...
JAMES NOLAND, 28, is a small but energetic World War II veteran of Bloomington, Ind. He rallied coal miners and other labor support against five-termer Gerald Landis, who voted for the Taft-Hartley law and who was in line, if elected, to become chairman of the Labor Committee. The Democratic gain in Indiana: five seats...
...reversal of French leftist sympathy, grew out of the recent coal strikes which tied up more than 16 percent of the French Labor force. Socialist and Catholic Labor movements withdrew their support, Grabar added, when they became convinced that the stoppage was prompted by Communist hostility to the Marshall Plan, and not wage demands...
...Colmol thus combines two operations-breaking and loading-which now require separate crews and machinery. It also eliminates two chief mining dangers-cutting and blasting. One of the problems it creates for mine owners is that it turns out coal too fast (up to 1,000 tons a shift) for mine elevators. Faster ways-perhaps conveyor belts-must be devised to carry the coal to the surface...