Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late in 1931 Mr. Mellon sold to the Mellon-controlled Union Trust Co. of Pittsburgh 123,622 shares of Pittsburgh Coal Co., claiming for tax purposes a loss of more than $5,500,000. Exactly 118 days later Union Trust sold the shares to Coalesced Co. for the exact purchase price plus 6% interest and transfer taxes, even though the market value of the shares had since declined. Created by Mr. Mellon in 1929 as a private holding company, Coalesced Co. is an interesting family treasure chest which Government counsel asserted to be nothing but a tax-dodging device...
...Captain Boris Vikhmann, "Ah, my good friend Captain Taudien, this voyage will be a joy!" In five minutes the German had persuaded the Russian to trust him and his friends for their passage money to Foochow (1,500 miles), where the Sheng An was to deliver a cargo of coal...
After the name Whali had been substituted with Teuton neatness and dispatch, the ten dead were dumped overboard, bloodstains scrubbed, everything made shipshape. Meanwhile, even though the Chinese freighter's cargo was chiefly coal, she could not steam to California without taking on food. In almost any port on the China coast she would be recognized. Shrewd Captain Taudien decided to put her in at the Japanese port of Dairen on the nether tip of Manchukuo. Clumsy, he ran her aground...
Sure enough, the Japanese found only coal, but they found also the locked in Chinese crew. Shrilling and chattering, the yellowmen rushed ashore with their tale of ten cold-blooded murders by white pirates on the Yellow Sea. Ever since this revelation the four Germans and the Swiss have denied their guilt, trying to get their case appealed to a higher Japanese court. Last week their defense counsel, the Mayor of Port Arthur, argued crushingly in the Superior Court at Dairen, "There is no Japanese law covering piracy. The defendants can only be punished for having entered Dairen illegally...
When the War broke out, the Fowler brothers lied about their ages (H. W. was 57, Frank 45), were accepted for service. After a short tour of duty in the trenches their deception was discovered and they were sent to the rear to heave coal, wash dishes. But the Fowler brothers were no ordinary soldiers: they addressed a strong and lucid complaint to the authorities in which they suggested "that such conversion of persons who undertook purely from patriotic motives the duties of soldiers on active service into unwilling menials or servants is an incredibly ungenerous policy on the part...