Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maintenance Department, because of its huge scope necessarily furnished the largest report but the Biology Department, not to be outdone, when the more essential guardians of the appearance of the University demanded 18,000 tons of soft coal to add a weighty $90,000 to their budget, retaliated with an order for three Praying Mantel Ootheca, which the International Dictionary says is "an egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks and of some im insects, as the cockroach," to swell their total by $3. Oddly enough, the Purchasing Agent was forced to buy one gallon of Cidol disinfectant...
Although the order for soft coal came to 18,000 tons, the hard coal was limited to 6,000 tons, which cost $80,000, but this reduction was taken advantage of by the Marine Research Laboratory, when it proceeded to file a report for 10 dozen Squalers, large plain, at a cost of $110. In one of the folders, which were revealed when the cabinets were opened, was the record for one skeleton of a bullfrog in a glass case at $15, while, at the same time, the Medical School sent in its inventory containing an item...
...mother sorrowfully tells him what must be his life's philosophy: "It's not what tha wants, lad, it's what tha's got to do." At 14 he wants to earn some money for his family, but he has got to become a coal miner to do that. Down into the pithead goes Danny among the sooty veterans who, when they stop to think, curse the darkness into which they have been born. There is a certain amount of camaraderie below the ground, but these undergroundhogs are mostly swine above...
With careful factual detail Author Boden tells of a Derbyshire miner's life, with all its withering working details. The narrow tunnels, the coal seams in which men pick lying sideways all day, the half-blind ponies, the constant fear make up a pretty picture of hell. Above ground things are complicated by lockouts, strikes, broken-spirited drunkenness, and filth. Danny is luckier than most: he has a good though poverty-stricken home, and he has a love affair with a coal-country girl that Author Boden sketches with extraordinary tenderness. But shades of the prison-house begin...
Died. William Kerr Kavanaugh, 72, St. Louis coal and shipping tycoon, baseball enthusiast, leader in the Great Lakes-to-the-Gulf waterway project; of pneumonia; in St. Louis...