Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressed into troopship service in World War I, she used her speed (23 knots) to zigzag alone through submarine-infested waters. She also performed yeoman service in World War II, carrying 384,586 servicemen to & from battle. Never once was the Aquitania, known as "Grannie," fired on. Between wars she...
*One was a fake, installed because many travelers seemed inclined to judge a ship's reliability by the number of stacks.
Oakey L. Alexander, president of Virginia's Pocahontas Fuel Co., Inc., shocked his friends last week as much, he said, as if "Harry Truman had joined the Young Republican Club." The boss of one of the biggest U.S. soft-coal producers went into the oil business. With California Oil...
Pocahontas is going into a competing business, said Alexander, because "our customers are thoroughly disgusted with interruptions year after year because of [John L.] Lewis' attitude. We are going into oil where oil is available in order to hold on to our business."
Coalmen everywhere were finding business harder & harder to hold on to. This was due to: 1) Lewis, whom coalmen call "the best oil salesman in the country"; 2) the greater efficiencies and cleanliness of oil and natural gas; 3) the rise in coal prices and drop in oil prices, which...