Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know construction, that possibility is nauseating. To the taxpayers of the country, it should be a warning of eventual national financial collapse. Only to the politicians is such a statement ''duck soup." If the men on WPA had been turned loose making automobiles, mining coal, or publishing news periodicals, the storm of protest would have been terrific, and the effort ended. Only in construction, the most disintegrated of all industries, could such an invasion of private industry be continued. We, in the industry, fight against its socialization...
...which all 25,000 assiduously engaged-swapping. To Washington they had brought a strange assortment of impedimenta: wampum, pine cones, stuffed birds, sharks teeth, shells, sponges, live hoot owls, pickled scorpions. Texans (dressed in chaps) brought a large consignment of live horned toads. West Virginians brought hunks of coal shellacked for paperweights. Californians brought 20-ft. strips of movie film. With these trade goods, the young merchants wandered around, to the wooden fence near the camp of the Bahamians, the barbed wire fence of the Texans, the Paul Bunyan display of the Wisconsin Scouts, the Florida encampment hung with Spanish...
...Arno Carl Fieldner of the U. S. Bureau of Mines raised the old bugaboo about the imminent exhaustion of oil & gas. There was enough coal, he said, to last 2,100 years. But the known reserves of natural gas were 30 to 40 trillion cu. ft., of oil 13 billion barrels. At the present rate of consumption the petroleum would be gone in 13 years-but Dr. Fieldner predicted that discoveries of new pools and more efficient production techniques would stretch out the supply for a century. Unless "greater social control" was forthcoming, known supplies of gas would vanish...
...Pacific and Great Northern Railways. By a 5-to-4 decision, the holding company was found in restraint of trade, its control of the two railroads was disestablished. Last week, with 23,063 shares of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad and 28,557 shares of Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co. Ltd. in its portfolio, Northern Securities board of directors proposed that the oldest railroad holding company be dissolved...
...patronage dispenser. Although Mr. Guffey bosses the machine, Governor Earle does not always obey him. This year, for example, he backed a bill for adding an extra brakeman to freight and passenger train crews. Labor wanted it but Senator Guffey, who is campaigning for lower freight rates on coal, opposed it. With the aid of David Lawrence, the Governor got the Legislature to pass...