Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with hydrogen chloride to obtain chloroprene. Polymerization of the chloroprene had resulted in a sub stance similar to the product obtained by vulcanizing rubber with sulphur. Stopping the polymerization at an intermediate point gave them ? Rubber. In short, they had produced synthetic rubber from acet ylene (product of coal and limestone), salt and water. While the rubber chem ists cheered, the three young du Ponters ? W. H. Carothers, F. B. Downing, Ira Williams ? generously gave most of the credit to a 53-year-old Catholic priest, Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, C.S.C., of Notre Dame University. Father Nieuwland...
Drama in the coal fields of Harlan County, Kentucky, assumes the proportions of American tragedy when Theodore Dreiser waves the crusader's flag. Sheriff deputies are paid by the mine owners; houses of strikers are dynamited and burned. Children die, seven or eight per week; nobody is indicted for the killing of twelve miners while forty to fifty miners are indicted for the killing of three deputy sheriffs. Miner's pay is forced down to eighty cents a week; three thousands out of the eighteen thousand miners are blacklisted. Local officials regard themselves as the agents of the mine owners...
...outstanding examples of the wrong way to meet an extreme business emergency. Enlightened business will probably view it as one of the results of the lack of organized planning in a period of over-expansion. Economists may view it as another symptom of the passing of Old King Coal. Sociologists may attribute its extremity to the lack of education in the district in which it occurred. In the meantime the Press will be diffident, the miners will die, and Mr. Dreiser will live in the hearts of his countrymen. In the meantime one section of the population will go hungry...
Improvement, Small but perceptible was an improvement in employment noted by the U. S. Department of Labor for September. More jobs, longer hours were found in coal mining, shoemaking, tobacco production, textile manufactures. Stagnant as the month preceding were the steel and motor industries...
...beat guns into fishing tackle, roller and ice skates, cutlery, flashlights. It tried even to enter the chainstore business through purchase of Simmons Hardware Co. in 1922. Last winter it was unable to pay a bill owed to Thomas Albert Dwight ("Tad") Jones, Yale's longtime football coach, a coal dealer. On Jan. 22 the great Winchester Repeating Arms Co., whose stock (largely held by New Haven's Bennett family) was quoted at $3,000 a share during the War, passed into the control of a Federal receiver. Thus it was that last week Powderman Olin...