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Word: shoveler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been ploughed back, and a 50% stock dividend was paid in 1934. That year Iron Fireman introduced a model which put coal on nearly an even footing with the automatic appeal of oil or gas, since the coal was conveyed from bin to furnace without the intervention of a shovel. Aside from convenience, the strongest selling point for mechanical stokers is economy. More heat is obtained from less coal. Stokers have offered hope to the coal industry, since they mean real competition for the oil burner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: First Firemen | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...three Negroes he saw waggling their arms at an upstairs window. Backing his truck up to the house. Driver Wilson geared in the motor to start elevating one end of the body. When it was nearly level with the window, he scrambled up, broke the pane with his shovel. "Hey!" he bellowed, "Jump, jump into the coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peace, Peace | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...steamy field under a sweltering sun, Chuck Cheshire of University of California at Los Angeles: 1) caught a shovel pass and ran 43 yards to a touchdown; 2) tossed a pass to Funk for another; 3) ran 81 yards for a third through the entire Oregon team. The U. C. L. A. rooting section, which had spent the half-time making card-formation pictures of a bear eating a duck, went home feeling sure that nothing in the rest of their schedule will keep the team out of the Rose Bowl if they can beat California this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...member of 1925, in full class costume, carrying a wooden cross and a shovel, bound in an aimless fashion for the baseball stands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bolman Gives Oration, Lansing Reads Poem in Colorful Class Day Program | 6/20/1935 | See Source »

...Tabor, in the belief that his silver mines would produce unending wealth, had squandered or gambled away some $12,000,000 in 14 years. Now he was ruined. Followed five years of humiliating poverty-"Baby Doe" stripped of her gorgeous gowns and jewels, "Silver Dollar" working occasionally with pick & shovel. In 1898 he was appointed Denver's postmaster, held the job a year. died. But only last week came an end to the story of the fabulous Tabors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: End of Baby Doe | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

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