Word: draining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Markle, 74, retired coal tycoon, Manhattan charitarian; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Starting with Pennsylvania anthracite properties inherited from his father, he bought up adjacent flooded mines, built the huge Jeddo Tunnel through three miles of rock to drain them. During the 1902 strike he fiercely called on President Roosevelt for Federal troops to subdue the United Mine Workers under John Mitchell. Disgruntled by the settlement of the strike, he gave up active supervision of his properties, moved to Manhattan. In 1907 he went totally blind, later recovered the use of his left eye. Good friend...
...Capital of the U. S. is no summer resort. Last week Washington's quasi-tropical sun, blazing down upon the Capitol, did its best to drain the vitality of all men who went about their business there. And perspiration stood upon the white fringed brow-as round and far more sunburned than the Capitol dome- of Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher. The venerable Senator might have been spared that ordeal. He might have returned to his constituents and sat with proper refreshment under the palm trees where the Atlantic laps on Florida's coral strand. His age, 74, entitled...
...Prohibition of bank holiday proclamations by State governors (because of the drain it puts on the banks of neighboring States...
...already held a great many protests, I should like to add one more to the through--this time against the unfair price charged for books in Government 1. These text books, not in stock, for the most part, in the second-hand bookshops of Cambridge, are a serious drain on the pockets of most Government students, the total cost, to date, being thirty-three dollars--fourteen the first half-year, nineteen the second. In particular, I call to your notice a required text, "The Theory and Practice of Modern Government," by Herman Finer (The Dial Press. 2 vols. 1932) which...
...that a Smuts-Roos coalition might be formed started a frantic rush on South Africa's Reserve Bank. In three days nearly $14,000,000 in Union pounds was either presented for exchange into Union gold sovereigns which the populace hoarded or transferred into accounts abroad. This catastrophic drain meant that the Reserve Bank's gold reserve of $55,000,000 would be exhausted in a few days. With urgence if not fear in his voice. Reserve Bank Governor Johannes Postmus told Premier Hertzog that something drastic must be done instanter...