Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government purchase or by expropriation. ¶The Government should exercise control of the industry and also, if at any time the supply of anthracite is cut off by labor troubles or otherwise, the President should be empowered to declare an emergency, take over the mines temporarily, fix wages, mine, transport and distribute coal. ¶The retail price of anthracite has practically doubled in ten years. ¶About 50 cents of the consumer's dollar goes to pay for coal at the mine, the remainder paying for transportation, distribution, retailers' and jobbers' profits. ¶Of this same dollar...
...Larkin (recently deported from the U. S.), plus 100 followers, invaded Liberty Hall, Dublin, and ejected the officers of the Irish Transport Workers on the ground that they had been suspended. This is a move to regain his old ascendency over the Transport Workers. It was feared that he might start agitations against the Free State; thus his latest move only provokes the comment : " It might have been worse...
...stocky man, and a bluff man, William McFee, with a seaman's sense of humor and a book-lover's wisdom. He does not bemoan the vanished days of sailing vessels. His romances are those of the swift modern ships, of merchantman and transport. As an essayist and critic he is almost as well known as for his novels. His opinions of books are often violent; but usually well founded...
...Mary Beatrice, transport for immigrants...
...Colusa, California, two men were arrested for using a water wagon, of the street-sprinkling variety, to transport " hooch...