Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sombre clothes heeding the mild words of those of their number who may be moved to prayer, are the antithesis of the average Protestant revival meeting. Their preoccupations are peace, temperance, social service, the Godly way of life. Their Friends Service Committee, active in rehabilitating jobless U. S. coal miners and ministering to the needy of both sides in the Spanish War, is Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's favorite charity to which in the past two years she has subscribed $30,000 of her radio earnings...
...Secretary, but Franklin Roosevelt gave the job to his wife's good friend, Frances Perkins. When Postmaster General Farley recommended Ed McGrady as an assistant secretary, Madam Secretary Perkins decided she did not want him. She changed her mind after he, as an NRAdministrator, had settled the 1933 coal strike. Thereafter as her assistant he not only did all the Department's most important field work but got credit for being its ablest member. It was no more than natural if Madam Perkins was nettled when labor leaders who had known Ed McGrady for years turned...
...others and the Vatican (de facto) recognize as the newest of the Earth's States is, on the whole, naturally wealthier than the State it must conquer to survive. Leftist Spain has the mercury mines of Almaden. But these are more than matched by Rightist Spain's coal, iron, copper. The country's olive orchards, cork forests, vineyards are about evenly split between the two warring groups. The Leftists control the orange groves in the eastern province of Valencia, and thus the principal Spanish export in normal times. But the Rightists own Spain's bread basket...
...purchases from the U. S. from $30,000,000 to $40,000,000 in the next twelve months. In return, the U. S. will grant the Soviet Union most-favored-nation commercial treatment for the first time. Unfavorable reaction to the new pact last week came from the Pennsylvania Coal industry whose United Mine Workers and mine operators let out a howl in unison. Both were alarmed because, in carrying out Secretary Hull's policy of building up foreign trade, the agreement was expected to exempt Soviet coal and coke from a special $2-a-ton tax, assessed under...
...Herrie reciprocated that disgust, discovered the bitter source of such humor as: "Nay, you don't have to bring no hard times to Skirthorpe. . . . This is the exporting center. . . ." Herrie's part in the strike ended when he was badly injured in a cave-in while stealing coal. Recovered, he joined his blacklisted friend Tawpun as a riveter in a neighboring city's boiler works...