Six of the railroads carrying coal to Tidewater from the Pennsylvania fields, Hearst said, not only had illegal agreements with coal operators but owned outright at least eleven mines.

After this, the iron industry was represented only by a small tinplate works, but by this stage the economy of the town was dominated by the coal mining industry.

The original Council had limited powers as issues relating only to coal and steel were in the Authority's domain, whereas the Council only had to give its consent to decisions outside coal and steel.

The NPF states that coal tar contains approximately 10, 000 chemicals, of which only about 50 % have been identified, and the composition of coal tar varies with its origin and type of coal ( for example ,: lignite, bituminous or anthracite ) used to make it.

The country has deposits of coal, opal, gemstones, kaolin, iron ore, soda ash, and tantalum, but only gold is mined in significant quantities.

This locomotive could haul 30 tons of coal up a hill at, and was the first successful flanged-wheel adhesion locomotive: its traction depended only on the contact between its flanged wheels and the rail.

At this time Gdynia was the only transit and special seaport designed for coal exports.

Not only was good passenger service established by the late 1840s, but an excellent network of freight lines reduce the cost of shipping coal, and made products manufactured in Scotland competitive throughout Britain.

By age 50, nearly 90 % of U. S. coal miners have some hearing loss, compared to only 10 % among workers not exposed to loud noises.

However, building the railroad and coal pier was only the first part of Huntington's dreams for Newport News.

Image: Donna York. jpg | A barge hauling coal in the Louisville and Portland Canal, the only man-made portion of the Ohio River.

Most South Korean coal is low-grade anthracite that is only used for heating homes and boilers.

He designed the main hall to seem like subterranean cave with 1, 200 coal bags suspended from the ceiling over a coal brazier with a single light bulb which provided the only lighting, so patrons were given flashlights with which to view the art.

Not only were men conscripted into the armed forces from the beginning of the war ( something which had not happened until the middle of World War I ), but women were also conscripted as Land Girls to aid farmers and the Bevin Boys were conscripted to work down the coal mines.

However, the term staithe may also be used to refer only to loading chutes or ramps used for bulk commodities like coal in loading ships and barges.

Anderson also took issue with the other candidates who criticized his 50 / 50 plan, whose only new strategies for dealing with the energy crisis were decontrolling the industry and mining more coal.

Halley's albedo, for instance, is about 4 %, meaning that it reflects only 4 % of the sunlight hitting it ; about what one would expect for coal.

It also did poorly in industrial or poorer urban areas ; for example it won only 9. 33 % in the Pas-de-Calais, a department formerly dominated by coal mining, in 2009.

And most of all it is not having the only man you could love, whether he drives a bread truck or delivers the mail or checks the berry crates down at the sheds, or owns seventeen oil wells and six diamond mines, for if you are anybody what he is or does makes no difference if he is the one.

The Muslim rulers were keen to invade India, which was a rich region, with a flourishing international trade and the only known diamond mines in the world.

" In the 14th century, Abu al-Fida writes there are sulfur mines in Jericho, " the only ones in Palestine.

Historically, three railways were built in Liberia to export ore from mines ; they were damaged during civil war, and as of August 2010 only one had been brought back into service.

This claim was made by Jiao Yu in his Huolongjing Quanzhi ( Fire-drake Manual in One Complete Volume ), his preface written in 1412 AD ( although the book was originally published in the mid 14th century ), and that Zhuge had used not only " fire weapons " but land mines in the Battle of Hulugu Valley against the forces of Sima Yi and his son Sima Zhao of the Wei Kingdom.

Since combat engineers with mine-clearing equipment can clear a path through a minefield relatively quickly, mines are usually considered effective only if covered by fire.

Mines of this type used by the United States are designed to self-destruct after a preset period of time, reducing the requirement for mine clearing to only those mines whose self-destruct system did not function.

The treaty does not include anti-tank mines, cluster bombs or claymore-type mines operated in command mode and focuses specifically on anti-personnel mines, because these pose the greatest long term ( post-conflict ) risk to humans and animals since they are typically designed to be triggered by any movement or pressure of only a few kilograms, whereas anti-tank mines require much more weight ( or a combination of factors that would exclude humans ).

In regards to laying mines, "... the laying of mines in the waters of another State without any warning or notification is not only an unlawful act but also a breach of the principles of humanitarian law underlying the Hague Convention No. VIII of 1907.

English and German pencils were not available to the French during the Napoleonic Wars ; France, under naval blockade imposed by Great Britain, was unable to import the pure graphite sticks from the British Grey Knotts mines – the only known source in the world.

Scandium is present in most of the deposits of rare earth and uranium compounds, but it is extracted from these ores in only a few mines worldwide.

In 2003, only three mines produced scandium: the uranium and iron mines in Zhovti Vody in Ukraine, the rare earth mines in Bayan Obo, China and the apatite mines in the Kola peninsula, Russia.

It is estimated that, were the straits closed even at today's higher sea level, most water in the Mediterranean basin would evaporate within only a thousand years, as it is believed to have done then, and such an event would lay down similar mineral deposits as those such as the salt mines now found under the sea floor all over the Mediterranean.

The deployment of these new underwater weapons resulted in only 1 battleship, but 2 armored cruisers and 2 destroyers being sunk in action ; with the remainder of the 80 some odd warships being sunk by the more conventional methods of gunfire, mines, and scuttling.

In the early 19th century, the world's only known sources of uranium ore were these mines.

When Mr Gladstone visited the North, you well remember when word passed from the newspaper to the workman that it circulated through mines and mills, factories and workshops, and they came out to greet the only British minister who ever gave the English people a right because it was just they should have it ... and when he went down the Tyne, all the country heard how twenty miles of banks were lined with people who came to greet him.

Not only his parishioners, but the whole town and, ultimately, the whole county were enormously impressed by this object lesson.

It is the only county in the state so far this month reporting a possible shortage in GA category, for which emergency allotment can be given by the state if necessary.

Regarding alcohol, wines and spirits are to be sold only in the state owned Wine And Spirits shops, where all prices must remain the same throughout the state ( county sales tax may cause the price to differ slightly ).

Fermanagh District Council is the only one of the 26 district councils in Northern Ireland that contains all of the county it is named after.

In the early 1960s, English county cricket teams began playing a shortened version of cricket which only lasted for one day.

Most districts cover multiple counties ; District 12 ( Orange County ) is the only district with one county.

The modern English county of Essex maintains the historic northern and the southern borders, but only covers the territory east of the River Lea, the other parts being lost to neighbouring Mercia during the 8th Century.

Gotland is the only Swedish county that does not have a county council, as well as having only one municipality and one telephony area code.

The only entirely new counties created in 1898 were the county boroughs of Londonderry and Belfast.

Anomalously, the city of Kilkenny is the only city in the Republic not to have a " city council "; it is still a borough but not a county borough and is administered by its eponymous county council.

The county board of commissioners controls the budget but has only limited authority to make laws or ordinances.

Lansing is the only U. S. state capital ( among the 47 located in counties ) that is not also a county seat.

The only landowners are fully owned subsidiaries of Disney, and right-of-way for state and county roads, and the only residents are Disney employees.

The only traditional Welsh county that never takes " shire " is Anglesey.

Fars Province has the highest number of Shahrestans, with 23, while Semnān and South Khorasan have only 4 Shahrestans each ; Qom uniquely has one, being coextensive with its namesake county.

The only purpose with the county is an office of a state governor who shall conduct law and order in the county.

Bucharest has a unique status in Romanian administration, since it is the only municipality that is not part of a county.

The only areas where the district had to submit to the county and state would be property taxes and elevator inspections.

Agnew ran for election as Baltimore County Executive in 1962, seeking office in a predominantly Democratic county that had seen no Republican elected to that position in the 20th century, with only one ( Roger B. Hayden ) earning victory after he left.