1.   Communication skills were far less important in the days when most employers expected no more of workers than the ability to shovel coal or push a wheelbarrow.

2.   Dafoe plays Yank Smith, a man who feels he controls the world because he shovels the coal that makes a luxury liner go.

3.   Converting his equipment to gas would enable Soria to cut out the labor required to shovel the coal from the heap onto pulleys carrying it to the boiler.

4.   The Senate majority leader is Joe Bruno of Glens Falls, the son of an Italian laborer who shoveled coal.

5.   Their assets included unbroken horses destined for the slaughterhouse and a boiler into which they had to shovel coal.

6.   When he was old enough to work, Corcoran shoveled coal into the hospital boiler.

7.   While growing up in Florence, his father shoveled coal for the railroads until he became ill.