Word: coals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Citizens Coal Company Burlington...
...Coal. A colleague and reputed confidante of Miss Arabella Susan Lawrence is Margaret Grace ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, Minister of Labor. Heeding the grumblings of unemployed miners she summoned miners and mine owners to Downing Street, listened to both sides. After deliberation she offered the grumblers a reduction from an 8-hour day to a 7½-hour day without cutting wages, requested the mine owners to formulate a plan for efficient marketing on a national basis. As neither miners nor owners appeared satisfied Miss Minister Bondfield announced that further conferences would be in order...
...Cape Cod estate and his Brookline home, said to contain the most luxurious bedroom in Boston. While prime Danforth-pounded stocks are not known, it is suspected they might include: International Combustion Engineering Corp., down from 103½ to 24⅝*. Bear argument: Preferred dividend passed, experiments in coal distillation costly and unproductive. Mr. Danforth is supposed to have sold short...
...session at a price of about 6.10 cents per yard. Last year one Gladys Meryl Yule, 24, inherited a sum supposed to be about $100,000,000. She was forthwith publicized as "England's richest heiress." The $100,000,000 represented figurative or literal mountains of tea, rubber, coal, oil, banks, newspapers, steamships, flour mills, jute mills or coin of His Britannic Majesty's realm derived therefrom. This polygonal fortune had come to her from her father, old Sir David Yule, who had built it up from four mills which devolved upon him from his father...
...Atlantic City, Patrolman Clifton Mann fired three shots at an injured dog. The first hit the right leg of one Clarence Beckett, railroad watchman. The second hit the dog, failed to kill it. The third hit the right leg of one Paul Robbins, coal and ice merchant. A motorcycle policeman arrived, shot...