Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your subcommittee of the Ways & Means has pending . . . [the Guffey] bill to stabilize the bituminous coal mining industry. ... I understand that questions of the Constitutionality of some of its provisions have arisen. . . . Manifestly, no one is in apposition to give assurance that the proposed act will withstand Constitutional tests, for the simple fact that you can get not ten but a thousand different legal opinions on the subject. But the situation is so urgent and the benefits of the legislation so evident that all doubts should be resolved in favor of the bill, leaving to the courts, in an, orderly...
...signature, the President was comfortably sure that he had the U. S. Labor situation well in hand, when in rushed Secretary Marvin McIntyre. The Press, declared Mr. McIntyre, was clamoring for a Presidential statement on the strike to begin Monday morning. What strike? asked the President. Why, the soft coal strike, said the Secretary. Oh, was there going to be a coal strike? The President had not heard of it. It had been postponed to July 1 when he had promised to press for passage of the Guffey Coal Bill and he had assumed it would be postponed again. Hastily...
Railroad with the biggest net income in the U. S. is the Van Sweringen-controlled Chesapeake & Ohio which operates 3,120 miles of track from tidewater Virginia through the West Virginia and Kentucky coal fields to Louisville and Chicago. Every year since 1925 C. & O. has earned from two to four times fixed charges. It is the only Class I railroad to continue paying 1929 dividends all through Depression. In 1933 it raised its dividends from $2.50 per share to $2.80. And last week C. & O. hung up another record when it awarded contracts for $11,819,000 worth...
...died, the taciturn, ingenious Vermonter was honored as one of the great inventors of the 19th Century. He was knighted by the Emperor of Austria, awarded high Saracenic orders by the Bey of Tunis. In the U. S., Fairbanks scale were used in every general store, post office and coal yard. Their accuracy was proverbial. Huge freight car scales were supposed to respond to the weight of a wandering chicken. In 1876 Josh Billings described a school mistress as "precise in everything, az a pair ov Fairbanks' improved platform scales...
...best armed (two 8-in. guns) of all the twelve cruisers of the Chinese Navy. But its poor old sister wallows along at less than ten knots. The two ships' toughest problem for decades has been to find a paymaster. Half the time they are in pawn for coal bills, their crews unpaid, a gun or two sold for scrap. In desperation ever since 1917, the commanders have been trying to pick a sure thing...