Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exports to Canada climbed to $1,100,000,000. Mr. Bennett promises to divert some 50 to 100 millions of this from the U. S. to Britain. The U. S. may expect to lose some of its $81,000,000 trade in iron & iron products. $30,000,000 in coal, $20,000,000 in chemicals, $12,000,000 in electrical apparatus, $3,000,000 in glass & glassware. That some of these products were not mentioned in the published summaries was taken to mean, not that they were omitted from the agreement, but that Canada wanted to avoid lobbying in Parliament...
...initials. Chided the Manchester Guardian: "From blazers it is an easy step to ties-and from busses it will be strange if the house-tie habit does not extend until stevedores write letters to the newspapers complaining against the cads who wear ties for which they never carried coal-sacks...
...that unless President de Valera called off his tariff war with Britain, the fall in freight loadings would force the Great Southern to abandon all service and return its territory to the pony and the jaunting car. He was particularly bitter against the $1 a ton tax on British coal. The fire-boxes of his locomotives are adjusted for Brit ish coal only...
...again last week was China's anti-Japanese boycott, cause of the much deplored Japanese invasion of Shanghai. On pain of a general strike, the Chinese Seamen & Pilots' Association ordered Chinese shipowners to refuse to refuel with Japanese coal. In Shanghai two new boycott clubs were formed, known respectively as The Purified Heart & Hot Blood Corps for the Extermination of Traitors, and The Blood & Soul Society...
Married. Marjorie Montgomery Ward, daughter and heiress of the late founder of Montgomery Ward & Co.; and Robert R. Baker, onetime Chicago coal merchant; in Philadelphia...