Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harper Sibley, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce, for the "Government and Industry" table; Joseph B. Eastman, Federal Coordinator of Railroads, also for the "Government and Industry" table; and Thomas C. Woodard, Peoples Council for the Guffey Coal Administration, for the same table...
When Philadelphia burgeoned into a metropolis, Girard's endowment, shrewdly invested in downtown real estate and Schuylkill County coal leases, rocketed. The 104-year-old Girard endowment now totals $88,844,000. Only Harvard and Yale are richer than this charity elementary and high school. Sprouted from its wealth are 28 more white marble buildings, within which 1,700 orphans, a staff of 600, live a life more generous than the Founder ever knew. From a long waiting list the College annually selects 150 boys, indentures them until they are 18. Moppets as young as 6 are admitted. They...
...Mellon Securities Co. and the other Jones & Laughlin bankers scrupulously pointed out in their prospectus, flood damage amounted to perhaps $1,000,000. But weather played another trick on J. & L. this year. At a tremendous saving over rail-carried fuel, the company barges coal by rivers to Pittsburgh and Aliquippa, site of its other big plant 19 miles away. There was more ice in Pittsburgh's rivers last winter than at any time since 1918. For 33 days no water-borne coal was delivered to the Aliquippa works. Costs were increased so much that the company estimated that...
Frank Richards first heard about army life at the bottom of a Welsh coal mine, when his "buttie," an ex-soldier, held forth on the milk & honey that was India. It sounded livelier than a collier's future, so off went young Richards to enlist in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was younger than the age he gave the recruiting sergeant, but well set-up and handy with his dukes. He soon got the hang of barrack life, and was enjoying his beer and his "bit of skirt" with the best. He took his part in many...
...agenda in the form of papers and in discussions includes: power resources of the different countries, such as hydro-electric, coal and oil; waterpower production; fuel preparation; internal combustion engines; power transmission and distribution; electro-chemistry; transportation, and electrification of railways; standardization and research; domestic, farm and agricultural uses; illumination; education and health; and economics of power production...