Word: coal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...political element, Italy now occupies a better position than before the attack, surer in defence, and offering more favorable opportunities in some future offensive to make full use of her superiority in men. Henceforth the Allies will make sure that Italy is supplied with the requisite iron and coal, materials without which she cannot fight, for the immeasurable consequences of complete German success in Lombardy or even the coast provinces have been only too clearly realized...
Nearly every day come reports of strikes, or threats of strikes, from rail-roads, mines, and munition factories, menacing a suspension of those great activities which would spell ruin to the country. The problem thus created is unusually complex; with the rates of transportation or coal production lowered and limited, an increase of wages and a shorter working day in many cases cannot be given. On the other hand, any walk out of the strikers would tie up our whole industrial organization, and make difficult or well-nigh impossible the exportations to our allies at the present hour...
Means for supplying Russia with necessary equipment of every description, from rolling stock and munitions to credits, must be determined. The apportionment of the world's available tonnage, so that Italy may get her raw materials and France her food and coal, will have to be settled. But the conference will do much more than this. Pressing diplomatic and political problems demand immediate settlement and mutual understanding. The Russian project of an allied declaration affirming the Russian resolutions concerning the independence of Poland, the Balkan problem, and China is one of the most important...
...entry of the spring has been noted since forgotten time by poets with the coming of the red-breasted robin, by lovers with the coming of the bashful violet, by housewives with the coming of the iceman on the departing trail of the coal man, and by college men with the coming of the straw...
...required will serve as gunners-mates, boatswains'-mates, quartermasters, seamen, engineers, electricians, machinists, riggers, blacksmiths, coppersmiths, riveters, ship-carpenters, firemen, coal passers, cooks, stewards, radio operators, and in many other capacities in coast and off-shore duty, whereby men of the regular navy may be relieved for duties abroad...