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...sometimes said that the U. S. coal industry, disposed as it is to overproduce, needs a good strike about every three years. For the nation as a whole this is certainly no formula for wealth and plenty. The six-week soft-coal deadlock that ended last week caused serious and conspicuous economic damage. Retail trade in the strike area dropped 15% to 20%. Estimates of the total loss of purchasing power ran as high as $100,000,000. Though last week's settlement came in time to prevent large-scale stoppage of factories, ships or railroads, the effects...
...bituminous operators, however, the strike was by no means an unmixed evil. On April 1 total bituminous coal stocks had piled up to 40,550,000 tons-nearly a six-week supply at the average rate of U. S. consumption (1,000,000 tons per day). Not all this accumulated coal was shoveled away during the strike...
...preparation. Fueling started at emergency speed to fill all the Fleet's tanks and bunkers in three days instead of the normal twelve. Guessing that they might be bound much farther west than California, perhaps to Pearl Harbor or beyond, commissary officers laid in for their crews a six-week supply of fresh milk, fresh vegetables, including tons of spinach. And orders were to unship all old ammunition, take aboard new. Gunners knowingly noticed that the new projectiles for their big guns were colored differently from target ammunition, had sharper noses...
...winner of the six-week competition will become Second Assistant Varsity Manager and eventually Manager, receiving a major "H" and going on two southern trips, while the second man will receive a minor...
...winner of the six-week competition will become Second Assistant Varsity and eventually Manager, receiving a major H and going on two southern trips while the second man will receive a minor...