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...coal industry accounts for 58% of all U.S. energy, is still the prime source of power & heat. What was to be done, asked President Baker-who presided at the conference and whose coal-founded Institute constantly probes Coal's ills-about an industry which was "creeping along with leaden shoes on its feet...
...Torture. They found five more skeletons. Then Rev. Peter F. Cusick, director of the shrine, and Curator John E. Wyman of the Montgomery County Historical Society became suspicious. The hill crest must have been the burial ground not of the martyrs, but of those who had tomahawked them. A leaden trinket, tortoise-shaped, seemed to indicate an Iroquois burial ground...
...prisoners' box was not a confidence-inspiring red but leaden grey. Four soldiers guarded the eight prisoners. Facing Death, they smoked and read magazines to pass the time. Thirteen Jupiter arc lamps blazed upon judges, prosecutor, prisoners. A dozen Soviet photographers prowled and climbed about unhindered, taking snapshots. Cinema cameras, both silent and sound-recording, purred softly. To the half-million citizens shouting "Death! Death!" outside, batteries of loudspeakers shouted every word of the trial. To illiterate millions of Soviet citizens the state radio broadcast. By order of Prosecutor Krylenko daily bulletins from the trial were despatched from Moscow...
Gasbag Derby. From Cleveland Airport one afternoon last week six gasbags cast off into a leaden sky for the 19th James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. Late the next afternoon the two favorites, the U. S. Goodyear and Belgian entries were still aloft, fighting it out for the second leg of the third Bennett...
Little flurries of snow fell last week in Benton Harbor, Mich. Under the leaden sky a melancholy old lady picked up all her belongings and traipsed a half-mile to a new home. She was "Queen" Mary Purnell, wife of the late "King" Benjamin Purnell, self-proclaimed Messiah, founder of the famed, bewhiskered religious cult called House of David...