Word: soft-coal
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...last week a coal crisis existed only in headlines. When 340,000 Appalachian miners first "abstained from work" April 2, big stocks were above ground; 28% of the U. S. soft-coal industry was still free to operate. But last week John Lewis ordered a shutdown May 4 in fields outside the Appalachians, unless the Appalachian operators capitulate. He likewise threatened to close down what is left of Pennsylvania's sick hard-coal industry, unless its operators quickly came to terms in separate negotiations...
...wrecking of the motor workers union would be a serious matter. John L. Lewis, locked in contest with A. F. of L. over the Wagner Act, jockeying for advantage in peace talks with the Federation and tied up in contract negotiations for his miners with soft-coal operators, did what he had done before: shipped his lieutenants, Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman, to the scene of disruption...
...years ago, after an absence of 18 years, she returned to the soft-coal country to gather material for a new novel. This time she saw gutted farms, depleted mines, nothing to evoke the dream of Carnegie and Frick except the taste of gritty coal dust...
Born 52, years ago in the soft-coal country which gives the background to her novel, Author Turnbull saw some of the first coal mines opened in that section. Like many another child of Scotch-Irish farmers in the beautiful rolling hills of Westmoreland County, thrilled by the romance of Carnegie and Frick, she saw the coke ovens like a pillar of fire by night, the mine tippets a new wonder...
Louis, Evansville and the soft-coal fields around Cairo, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Ry. is more important than its size would indicate, for it is a connecting link in the great Van Sweringen system. To get control of C. & E. I. after ICC had disapproved linking it with the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Vans pulled off a slick deal in which Paine, Webber & Co. acted as dummy purchasers. A subsequent circumventing of legal requirements, whereby the Vans got RFC unwittingly to pay off an inter-company loan, drew an ICC examiner's admission that "we were made monkeys of. . . ." Last week...