Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governors of the big bituminous coal States east of the Mississippi River (Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, Tennessee) to appoint a "stabilizing"' commission...
...Fuel economies. Railroads alone (biggest coal consumers) have reduced their aggregate requirements during the past ten years by 225,000,000 tons, a saving...
...Although it takes 15,000 to 25,000 cu. ft. of natural gas to do the work of one ton of coal, according to George I. Rhodes, gas engineer of the engineering firm of Ford, Bacon & Davis, gas has already supplanted 10% of the 475,000,000 tons of bituminous coal annually mined...
Here were some major factors that were whittling away the profit margin from the coal business...
Plans- In spite of its alarming condition, the ponderers at Pittsburgh were aware that the coal industry accounts for 58% of all U.S. energy, is still the prime source of power & heat. What was to be done, asked President Baker-who presided at the conference and whose coal-founded Institute constantly probes Coal's ills-about an industry which was "creeping along with leaden shoes on its feet...