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Word: coals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Testifying before a House subcommittee, Admiral Byrd made some dazzling statements : "We discovered a seam of coal down there that we think is sufficient to supply the United States for 100 years or more. This seam of coal is ... exposed along the slope of a high mountain range so that it is not necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: To the Bottom | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...have no doubt that there is oil in Antarctica. . . . Who knows but what our future reservoirs of oil and coal . . . lie waiting for us at the bottom of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: To the Bottom | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Strategy. The region where the Japanese and Soviet Mongols are fighting is known to contain coal and quite possibly oil. Furthermore, no one knows for certain where that part of the border between Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo is. More important than these potential causes of the conflict, however, is the fact that the Lake Bor district lies directly across the probable line of march of a Japanese invasion into central Siberia, and on the left flank of a Russian attack on the Japanese positions in North China. Control of Outer Mongolia may be the decisive factor in a future Russo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTER MONGOLIA: Frontier Incident | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...station, leather, shoe and textile factories-have been established. Six months ago excited Mongols raced their tough little ponies against the first railroad train they had ever seen when service was started on a 25-mile narrow-gauge line connecting Ulan Bator Khoto with the country's only coal mine. Three years ago Dictator Joseph Stalin informed the world that the U. S. S. R. would tolerate no outside interference there, and Foreign Commissar Molotov dittoed these sentiments last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTER MONGOLIA: Frontier Incident | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...ruinous reorganization, she stepped out. Old Vice President John R. Lawson, onetime president of Colorado's Federation of Labor, resigned and took three months' pay. Into Rocky Mountain Fuel's offices in Denver moved William Taylor, president of Cleveland's Coal Mine Management Co. His aim: to reorganize R. M. F.. put it back on a paying basis. Colorado mine union leaders talked to Reorganizer Taylor, said they were satisfied no change in labor policies was intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: R. M. F. | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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