Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon French warships in the harbor swept the rooftops with their searchlights while crack French Colonial marksmen tried to pick off the snipers. All Colonials used in the streets were white, the Government announced, but Toulon's electric plant and some Municipal buildings were put under guard of coal-black Senegalese. Vice-Admiral Louis Berthelot of the Toulon naval station declared: "The arsenal workmen have sent me a delegation saying that they do not wish to be linked with last night's bloodshed which they ascribe to underworld agitators eager for loot." Meeting in a suburb three miles...
...scattering live cigaret butts. No one is allowed to pick them up, for later Mr. Timken likes to look across a carpet pock-marked with burned spots, evidence of successful rages. In gentler moods Chairman Timken is generous with his money. He pays high wages, has provided food and coal for old employes now idle. To Canton he once donated a $250,000 swimming pool. Eight years ago he gave Cleveland's Dr. Orval James Cunningham $1,000,000 to build a tank hospital where patients live under compressed air (TIME...
...House Ways & Means Committee a subcommittee handed, without recommendation, the Coal Stabilization Bill minus the doubtfully constitutional provision for Government purchase of $300,000,000 worth of submarginal coal mines...
...first business years, so unexciting that Biographer Hagedorn fills in the gaps with wordy descriptions of Montana scenery, gave him little experience for the great problems he was to face: he ran a coal yard, made about $5,000 a year, married quietly and happily, did a little gambling in mining claims on the side. Inspired by the reckless career of F. Augustus Heinze, who was matching wits with Butte copper kings at the age of 21, Thompson traveled East to peddle his claims. Wall Street would not listen, State Street was almost as inhospitable, and he was nearly...
Thompson's holdings were scattered from Cobalt Lake, Canada to Peru. They included Inspiration Mine in Arizona and Indian Motorcycle Co. He financed lead, zinc and coal mines, street railways, handled the sensational Midvale Steel financing during the War when the stock rose from 290 to 500. He refinanced American Woolen Co. and Tobacco Products Co., launched Cuban Cane Sugar Co., got control of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co., organized Submarine Boat Corp. and the Wright-Martin Aeroplane Co. Fat, good-natured, bald, a tireless worker, a devoted family man, Thompson chewed tobacco, underpaid his employes...