Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publicity that has been coming out of Western Pennsylvania the last few weeks, in relation to the strike situation and the operations of the coal companies, is no doubt promoted by the miners' organization. Lots of the material is untrue. Much of this publicity is overdrawn and designed for only one purpose-to elicit public sympathy for a losing cause...
Lake Coal. To the annoyance of coal operators in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, the Commission refused to let freight rates be lowered 20 cents per ton by railroads (Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, Louisville & Nashville, Hocking Valley, Virginian) which carry coal from that section to the Great Lakes, for transshipment to the Northwest...
...scarcely move in it without stepping on some one's toes; bat the statement becomes increasingly true in these days, and, after all, the truth is never trite. It appears that even so innocuous a phrase as "American legation" jars on the ears of much of the Western Hemisphere, and that the diplomats at Washington, anxious not to displease, have in recent time substituted for it such an expression as "the United States legation...
...Western Union Telegraph Co. (Ready-to-wire sentiments)-$1,205,458. Previous year...
...infallible sign of a really great murder is the appearance of the Western Union Co.'s giant portable electric switchboard, capable of despatching 20,000 words an hour over 180 wires. This behemoth is also used for such spectacles as Dempsey-Tunney fights, otherwise it sulks in storage...