Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through Ohio and western Pennsylvania, the Ferdinand Magellan rolled through the stilled heart of U.S. industry, silenced by the coal and steel strikes. Mile on mile, freight cars stood empty on sidings, smokeless chimneys reared against the slaty sky. Truman slipped...
Merry Chase. The prospect of peace in steel let the U.S. Government turn its attention on John L. Lewis, whose seven-week-old soft-coal strike had passed the pinching stage and was really hurting. In Washington last week for a clandestine meeting with Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching, John L. was in a sullen but athletic mood. For 45 minutes he led newsmen on a comic-opera chase through midtown Washington, waddling through side doors and around corners like an amateur Sydney Greenstreet, climbing in & out of taxicabs, bouncing up & down in elevators...
...Front Porch. First defendant to go to trial was self-assured, balding Coleman A. ("Brownie") Lollar. Lollar operated a scuttle-sized coal mine. He had also been a special deputy sherriff...
...Guedel saw him ad lib for ten minutes on a network show when Bob Hope accidentally dropped his script. Shortly thereafter Guedel put Groucho into You Bet Your Life. He still has some qualms: "Having Groucho as emcee of a quiz show is like using a Cadillac to haul coal...
Many another corporation was also worried over a cut in fourth-quarter earnings from the steel and coal strikes. Some had been hard hit already. Of 47 railroads reporting so far, only two (Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, and the Bangor & Aroostook) showed a gain for the first nine months over 1948. Some were in the red (e.g., Pennsylvania's September loss of $2.7 million put it in the red for the first nine months, v. a $20.4 million profit in 1948), and a bad third quarter put all the rest down anywhere from 15% to 75% for the nine...