Word: shamokin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hayden, Stone & Co. engineers last year studied Shipman Coal Co.'s property at Shamokin, Pa., and estimated that 10,000,000 tons of hard coal could be mined thereon. Thus assured, Hayden, Stone sold $800,000 of bonds for the coal company. Back of the bonds was Hayden, Stone's moral support, but not legal liability...
Those bonds are now practically worthless. The engineers had made a mistake in their coal soundings at Shamokin; receivers administer Shipman Coal affairs...
Spencer W. Crowell at Algona, Iowa, and Robert J. Glick of Shamokin, Pa., died during the terrific suspense when the VOICE failed to announce the decision...
...their fixed charges. Want began to stalk in the homes of 158,000 miners in Pennsylvania. Relief agencies had to help the miners. In Luzerne, Schuylkill, Lackawanna Counties, 125,000 of whose total population of 893,000 men, women and children are miners, in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, Pottsville, Shamokin, severe business depression grasped the entire communities. Meanwhile New England and the northeastern states to a large degree escaped suffering by learning to use substituteslvania legislators, businessmen and others. The period closed with the summoning of operators and miners to renew their negotiations on a call sent out by Chairman...