Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coal industry, one of the few industries really exporting its product (to neutrals whose English-German sources are cut off), was so swamped that paradoxically, in spite of steady, increasing exports to Canada, Bethlehem Steel ordered 6,000 tons of coke a month from the Steel Co. of Canada's Hamilton (Ont.) plant...
...They found that the U. S. produced 34% of the world's coal; 32% of its copper; 35% of its electric power; 29% of its iron ore; 62% of its oil; 78% of its sulphur; 22% of its lead; 79% of its passenger automobiles and 66% of its trucks; 30% of its cotton and 67% of its silk goods; 67% of its rubber goods; 43% of its chemicals; 90% of its movies...
...weeks later a cruiser flying a British flag and carrying four funnels (one of them was made of deck runners), easily mistakable for the British Yarmouth, showed up in the Indian Ocean. The counterfeiting Emden took as her first prize a Greek, loaded to the Plimsoll with coal for British ports. The Emden did not sink her but kept her by as a bunker ship to be crowded with captured crews and finally sent to Germany. A fantastic series of sinkings, captures, cripplings began. What made them particularly fantastic was the gallantry, as well as the ingenuity, of Captain Miiller...
...Coal. Typical of industries doing so well that they were selling on a 24-hour basis, with no prices guaranteed for longer, is sick old King Coal. Exports (mostly to neutrals' deprived of coal supplies from belligerents) are competing with forward buying by worried U. S. fuel users. Hampton Roads (Va.), which has not been a big coal port for years, took foal from Pocahontas mines at the rate of 433,066 tons a week (current Pocahontas weekly production: 6-to-700,000 tons a week). Hampton Roadsters worked days, nights and Sundays loading ship holds and bunkers. Pennsylvania...
CINCINNATI, Ohio--William Green, who rose from the coal mines of Ohio to leadership of 4,000,000 craft union workers, today was elected President of the American Federation of Labor for his 16th consecutive term...