Word: coal
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Married. Elizabeth Evans Hughes' daughter of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; and William Thomas Gossett, Manhattan lawyer in the employ of Hughes, Schurman. & Dwight; at the Hughes home in Washington, D. C. Married. Clarenore Stinnes, 29, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes. German coal, iron, steel, shipping & press tycoon; and Axel Soderstrom, 36, Swedish cinema producer, her companion last year on a round-the-world-motor trip; in London. Married. John Ringling art collector, railroad man, head of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, last of the five brothers; and a Mrs. Emily Haag Buck of Manhattan; in Jersey City...
...Stalina and the maddest coal mines imaginable. . . . Working conditions so arduous that the labor turnover exceeds 100% per year. . . . Miners on all fours, crawling down (sometimes sideways like crabs) to reach their work a mile and a half underground. . . . Red taskmasters sure that to cut passages high enough for the miners to stand erect would cost too much...
...Pressure. . . . The feverish, nationwide struggle to complete the Five-Year Plan. . . . 46,651,000 tons of Soviet coal mined this year, an increase of 7,000,000 tons over last year. . . . Marvelous, but somewhat short of the Plan...
Said he: "The task of science is to supply as many legitimate human wants as possible with one foot-pound of energy∙... to extract the maximum of satisfaction to the race of our present reserves of energy." When coal and oil are gone, Science will turn to sunlight as man's source of energy. Reassuring to the insurance presidents was it to hear Caltech's Millikan, Nobel Prizeman of 1923, student of the Cosmic Ray and of subatomic energy (both of which he rules out as practical energy sources for mankind) declare: "Only the economic reason that...
...deposit $50,000 of the proceeds of the Army-Navy charity football game (see p. 34). J. C. Brownstone & Co., a clothing firm whose senior partner is a Bank of United States director, had the bulk of its liquid assets in the bank, asked for a receiver. Burns Bros. Coal dropped sharply on the Exchange on rumors that it too was involved, but the company announced it had less than $100,000 in the bank. The City of New York sought in vain to release a $1,500,000 deposit. Another big depositor was Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit & Skirt...