Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Over & above the legislative mischances which may rise from the President's program and the disruptions within Congress, are two great unknowns. One is the actions of the Supreme Court. With decisions on AAA and the Bankhead Cotton Control Act close at hand, with decisions on the Guffey Coal Act. the Public Utility Act, the Labor Disputes Act in the offing, the possibility of one or more New Deal upsets means that at any time Congress may turn to tackle new legislative problems...
When an oilstove exploded and smoky flames began roaring up through a two-story house in a mean section of Newark, N. J. one afternoon last week, a passing coal truckman named John Wilson knew at once how to save the three Negroes he saw waggling their arms at an upstairs window. Backing his truck up to the house. Driver Wilson geared in the motor to start elevating one end of the body. When it was nearly level with the window, he scrambled up, broke the pane with his shovel. "Hey!" he bellowed, "Jump, jump into the coal...
...clothing smoking and his coal afire, Driver Wilson departed in bewilderment. Firemen later extinguished the blaze. By the smoldering bed they found the charred bodies of two Negro men, one Negro woman, all devout disciples of Harlem's bald little Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine (TIME, May 27, March n, et ante...
Autopsy surgeons can spot a lifelong city-dweller by the accumulation of soot in his lungs. Effect of this on health remains unknown, but there is no doubt that coal smoke is a costly nuisance. Dr. Furnas foresees cities made clean by complete conversion of coal into fuel gas at the mine, by piping the clean-burning gas to metropolitan centres. Gas distilled from coal leaves a coke residue-which can also be converted by the water-gas process. Currently, artificial gas for heating is a luxury because it takes about $48 worth to equal a ton of coal. Three...
...amazed to learn that overseas visitors to Great Britain spent ?25,000,000 in 1934." declared H. R. H. "This figure is the same as the figure for the sale of wool in this country and only ?3,000,000 behind the revenue from the sale of coal...