Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mine selling price of every lump of the nation's soft coal last week fell a new 15% Federal tax, 90% of which will be rebated to producers who sign the NRA-like code prescribed by the Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935. Moving promptly to resolve what President Roosevelt called "doubt, however reasonable," as to the Act's constitutionality, President James W. Carter of Virginia's and West Virginia's Carter Coal Co. lost one decision to the Government, won one against his family in District of Columbia Supreme Court...
Because the tax is not payable until Jan. 2, Justice Jesse C. Adkins refused President Carter a temporary injunction against forced code compliance, promised decision on his application for a permanent injunction within ten days. Justice Adkins gave the coal man a temporary injunction restraining his company from complying voluntarily with the code. President Carter wanted that because his stockholders, who are also members of his family, wanted to sign up without any legal quibbling...
When the new tax took effect last week only 1,873 of the 15,000 U. S. bituminous coal producers had signed the code but they accounted for almost one half the nation's annual output. The National Bituminous Coal Commission gave laggards a vigorous prod by promising strict enforcement of the Act's Section 14, which prohibits the purchase of codeless coal not only by the Government but by all private agencies serving the Government, such as PWA contractors and mail-carrying railroads...
...plaudits for showing real roses in real vases is apparently the east end of Manhattan's 53rd Street. To the left stands the rear entrance of a swank apartment not unlike River House. In the centre squats a row of verminous flats. To the right rises a grimy coal chute. And all across the front stretches a pier-end from which urchins dive with a splash into what normally would be the orchestra pit, but which gives every illusion of being the fetid East River...
...Deal, were startled to find in their paper a full-page advertisement entitled THE RAKE'S PROGRESS, or The United States is wasting its substance in riotous extravagance. Excerpt: "WOODROW WILSON and Franklin D. Roosevelt, however admirable their qualities, nevertheless divide the distinction of standing forth as the Coal-Oil Johnnies of American politics. . . . Before the times of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States had practically NO NATIONAL DEBT. Now we have a formidable National debt of some THIRTY THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS, which is continually INCREASING. . . . The most important thing before this Nation at this moment...