Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than $1,000,000,000 worth of goods annually. The English Co-Operative Wholesale Society, corresponding to Sweden's K. F., is the biggest distributing organization in the British Empire. It has a $700,000,000 bank, a $100,000,000 insurance company. It owns its own steamships, coal mines, olive groves, and, with the Scottish Wholesale, the world's biggest tea plantations. It is the No. i buyer of Canadian wheat, the No. 1 British miller, No. 1 shoemaker and second only to Lever Brothers in soapmaking. Its factories turn out everything from corsets to oil cake...
Enoch Kuklinskie Jr. was 35, married and a coal bootlegger. He and his 60-year-old father got their livings from a hole on a mountainside north of Shamokin in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields. The hole was on Stevens Coal Co. property which was not being worked. Like 3,500 other unemployed miners around Shamokin, the Kuklinskies mined coal on company property, called themselves bootleggers. The company called them thieves. Like the others they made about $4 a day digging coal out of abandoned shafts, selling it to independent truckers. And like other bootleggers they never bothered much about timbering...
...wheelbarrow once more. On the way out Father Kuklinskie heard the earth breaking up over his head, felt it falling on his shoulders. He ran, dragging his pick to safety. But in one glance backward he saw Son Enoch flop under the wheelbarrow as the avalanche of coal and rock descended...
Hastily to Superintendent George H. Jones of Stevens Coal's Cameron Colliery ran 60 dirty men, pleading for help for their fellow bootlegger. Well aware of the irony of having thieves beg aid from their victims, Superintendent Jones barked: "He is one of your own people, why not get him out yourselves...
Even a flock of favorable dividend actions last week failed to spur the market over its previous high. Westinghouse Electric raised its annual rate ($3 to $4). Young Walter Paul Paepcke's Container Corp. declared a 25? payment, its first in five years, and Texas Pacific Coal & Oil a 25? payment, its first in more than eight years. Harry Ford Sinclair's Consolidated Oil went on a regular 60? annual basis with promises of extras. U. S. Smelting & Refining raised its periodic payments from...