Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letting Congress know exactly what he wanted, for sending up sloppily drafted measures such as the Social Security Bill which had to be entirely rewritten in the House, for not making up his mind until June that he wanted the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill, the Guffey Coal Bill passed as part of his program. Last week Congress was growing tired, yearning for the finish line, when the President, at last knowing his own mind, began to ride harder, to put the whip to Congressional flanks...
...late NRA on June 16, Miner Lewis has been brewing a big bituminous strike to keep wages up (TIME, June 10). In wholehearted sympathy with him are most of the Northern bituminous mine operators, who will continue to pay high wages if the Government will continue to help hold coal prices up. Miner Lewis, abetted by the owners, has been working a trade with the Administration whereby he would call off his coal strike in return for passage of the Guffey bill. This measure, devised and sponsored by the first Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania in 54 years, would declare soft...
...takes some time to get mail from the States. From Fairbanks, the northern terminal of the railroad, the mail is carried by auto (weather permitting) to Chatanika, about 30 mi.; from there to Circle, about 130 mi., it is carried by horses, a five-day trip; from Circle to Coal Creek, almost 55 mi., the mail is carried by dog team up the Yukon River, in 2¼ days. The dog team has been on time every week this winter, even in snow storms or 50°-below-zero weather. Due to the difficulty in getting the horses over...
...Industries with chronic overproduction or a vast number of small-units will miss code discipline the most. The ugly problem of wage & hour differentials between the North and South was again to the fore in textiles and coal-complicated as always by excess capacity. Cement and fertilizer makers were nervous about prices. Copper men hoped to continue their curtailment program on a voluntary basis. In the liquor industry with its six codes scrapped price-cutting came early and easily...
...effects on the complex structure of U. S. Business were incalculable. The unstable ice industry may fall into confusion but manufacturers of ice-making machinery will probably profit. Almost no modern ice-making machinery has been purchased for nearly two years because installation required an NRA permit. If Southern coal fields regain their wage advantage over Northern fields, railroads like Chesapeake & Ohio, Virginian, and Louisville & Nashville will gain traffic, and lines like New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chicago & Eastern Illinois will lose it. Machine tool makers expect a slackening in the recent heavy demand for labor-saving equipment now that...