Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the radio, announced a forthcoming $1,000 prize contest. To make The 400 possible it had spent $100,000, a year of research and preparation. The roadbed had been reballasted, curves "super-elevated." Boiler pressure on the locomotive was stepped up, traction increased, oil substituted for coal to eliminate fuel stops. The 400 hit 91 on its maiden trip last week, clipped off 81 mi. in 67 min., zipped through a ceremonial tape at 85, snorted into St. Paul 2 hr. 52 min. under the old schedule...
None other than the world's champion himself, Max Baer in person, was paying Harvard a visit off the record. Dressed conservatively in a double-breasted gray suit, with coal black hair combed smoothly down, he blew in about 4.30 o'clock to give Coach Lamar's varsity mittmen a few sage words of advice...
...thorniest problem of all must wait for solution until after the plebiscite. From 1871 until 1914, when both the Saar and Alsace-Lorraine were German, an agreement was reached between the two districts as to the joint consumption of coal and iron, the respective product of each. Neither district, Mr. Florinsky feels, could have flourished without the cooperation of the other, which is to his mind proved by the fact that it was not long after the World War that the old agreement was revived, despite France's receiving Alsace-Lorraine, and the Saar's being controlled by the League...
Pressure, Down through a winterclad West Virginia valley before sunup puffed a four-car work-train filled with sleepy-eyed men. They were going to their jobs in a mine atop a nearby hill, owned by Elkhorn-Piney Coal Co., subsidiary of Koppers Coal & Transportation Co. of Pittsburgh, which also owned the train. As the train stopped at each little valley settlement, workmen climbed on jauntily swinging pails. With some 300 passengers aboard, Engineer William M. Blankenhorn stopped at the little mining community of Powellton, to work up more steam. Up & up went the pressure gauge. Satisfied that...
...roof of a house. The entire boiler sailed up into the air and crashed down through the roof of the first coach. When the steam cleared, dead & dying lay sprawled in all directions. Com-pany officials said the boiler had seemed satisfactory when inspected last summer. Elkhorn-Piney Coal's score: dead, 16; injured...