Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hassell signed a text which they did not disclose. It was supposed to provide, if and when Realmleader Hitler bags the Saar, that 1) Germany will buy the Saar mines owned by the French Government for 900,000,000 francs (approximately $59,400,000) plus large payments in coal; and 2) Saar citizens will enjoy "equal rights" regardless of race, language or religion. Since the Germans have always known that they would have to buy the mines to get them, and since France has always maintained that she would protect Saar citizens from wanton oppression, the "agreement" amounted...
...Giants lost $80,000. Since then they have made money almost every year, won the championship in 1927. In 1930 they raised over $115,000 for Unemployment Relief in a game against the Notre Dame Alumni. In addition, they have helped Owner Mara to enter sidelines like coal, liquor-importing (Timara Whiskey), fight promoting. In 1926 Owner Mara paid West Point's famed back Gene Vidal, now U. S. Director of Air Commerce, $100 to play for 15 minutes in a Florida exhibition game. He has set the fashion in hiring highly-publicized college stars, done more than any other...
...jury consisted of the president of the Peru, Ill. school board, a dealer in industrial diamonds, an insurance salesman, a young bookbinder, an unemployed telephone engineer, an automobile dealer, a coal salesman, a dairy farmer, the mayor of Millington, Ill., an employe of a grain and lumber company, an unemployed salesman of office supplies, a grocer. Two were in their 50's, six were in their 40's, two in their 30's, two in their 20's. They were a fairly representative cross-section of the middle class of U. S. business. Sitting in judgment...
...onetime oil-riggers, went to the poorhouse to live. Last summer their Superintendent smiled indulgently when they cackled of oil in the back yard, gave them permission to drill. From grinning neighbors they borrowed drill and engine. Fuel they had none till they discovered and worked a seam of coal on the grounds. Three weeks of drilling and they struck oil-30 barrels a day. Last week Superintendent and neighbors grinned no more when Yerian & Hupp turned down $10,000 for the well, organized Pauper Oil Co. Said Yerian to Hupp: "I don't care how much...
...employes. To Rochester last week for the ninth time went the favorite prints of 500 Kodak employes in 21 countries. A distinguished jury walked solemnly down long galleries of exhibits, conferred, then awarded the Eastman Gold Medal to Ralph J. Fallert of Chicago for a misty study of coal elevators and chimneys entitled "Towers of Industry." The Sulzer cup for the best portrait went to another Chicagoan, John W. Zarley for a picture of a smiling gentleman in a derby sucking a pipe...