Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor space in 101 Government buildings plus 2,500,000 sq. ft. in 103 rented buildings is no longer adequate for the growing horde of New Dealers in Washington, Secretary Ickes. as purveyor of office space to the Government, declared he thought the Social Security Board, Coal Commission and other new boards & bureaus would find it best to go to Baltimore or some other nearby city temporarily. ¶ In the style of General Hugh Johnson. Mr. Ickes slipped off to Detroit to deliver a speech assaulting anti-New Dealers. Excerpts...
...Fascist quarter. Soon he had steamed up Chairman Dr. Walter Alexander Riddell of the Governing Body of the International Labor Office, dean of Geneva's diplomatic corps, and permanent Canadian representative at the League of Nations. Next, cables informed the world that "Canada"' had proposed adding oil, coal and metals to Sanctions. This became known as the "Canadian Proposal." In the hands of League public relations experts it was made to look to the whole world and to Italy as if the strongest Sanctions move was being demanded from the other side of the Atlantic...
Instead of going down of shafts with his father, national among coal miners and Fairless worked his way three. Northern Ohio University, entered the steel business graduation. Familiar with a problems of workers by here Benjamin F. Fairless rise belied his name...
With hundreds of thousands of onetime coal miners on the dole and misery stalking the "depressed areas," coal mine owners claim they cannot raise wages because their combined operating profit for the whole United Kingdom last year was only ?4,000,000. The miners demand a combined wage increase of ?16,500,000 and their nation-wide vote last week authorized miner leaders to order a coal strike unless this demand...
...issue British coal mines shape up into the question: How long can His Majesty's Government afford to let British mine owners run their business as their fathers ran it on a basis now so antiquated and uncoordinated that the Department of Mines has for years been urging its reorganization along modern lines...