Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engrossed copy of the Guffey-Vinson Coal Control Bill sent to the President for signing, it was discovered last week that a nodding clerk had substituted an "are" for an "or." Concluding that the phrase still made sense, the Bill's Congressional handlers advised the President against sending it back to Congress for correction, urged him to sign it as was. This week he did, and nominated a seven-man National Coal Commission to administer...
...that," replied the company-hired police chief of Lynch, a company-owned coal town in Harlan County, Ky. "It would mean a Senate investigation and we can't stand that...
...organize Harlan County's miners. That drive failed, as union attempts to get a foothold in "Bloody Harlan" have always failed. But last week there was a new tide in Harlan history, and the feudal sway of Capital over one of the world's richest bituminous coal fields seemed about to end. U. M. W. had put 20 organizers in the field on the heels of the Supreme Court's validation of the Wagner Act. And for the first time full light was falling on dark Harlan County as, before the Senate's Civil Liberties Committee...
England exhausted her iron faster than coal, and now finds it convenient to export coal to such a city as Bilbao, bringing the ships home laden with ore. British capital and coal has enabled the city to build up a steel industry, though three-fourths of the iron that reaches the city is exported to England. Germany has never had sufficient iron. It is no accident, therefore, that the headquarters of the German "volunteers" in Spain have been set up at Devo, thirty miles from Bilbao, and these troops are leading the attempt to reduce the defenses of the Northern...
...ships will be commissioned by U. S. Steel's Pittsburgh Steamship Co., biggest steamship line on the Lakes, about half of whose 72 freighters were in Whitefish Bay last week. Second biggest line, with 47 ships, is Interlake Steamship Co., an affiliate of old & famed Pickands-Mather & Co., coal & iron. Notable among independent companies is the Tomlinson Fleet, founded in 1901 by Cleveland's crotchety George Ashley Tomlinson, 71, colleague of George A. Ball in the great Van Sweringen Deal (TIME, Dec. 14 et seq.), whose transportation interests were further enlarged fortnight ago when he became chairman...