Word: coal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salient fact about Germany then and now remains that she has few natural resources except her people. In important raw materials Germany has an exportable surplus of only two things: coal and chemicals. With a few industries (such as the electrical and dyestuff industries) the Germans have worked wonders. But ever since Germany ceased after 1871 to be a collection of medieval agrarian principalities she has had to import wool, cotton, rubber, metals, wood, oil and foodstuffs from beyond her territory...
...thirds, and 9,000.000 German pigs had to be slaughtered in the war's first year because there was not even garbage for them to eat. As early as 1916 ration cards for fats and meat had been introduced, and the "turnip" winter was at hand. In coal and steel production War-time Germany held up, partly because of the capture of Belgian and French mines and blast furnaces. But the immense capacity of Pittsburgh, made available to the Allies even before the United States' entry into the war, easily beat down the Ruhr and the German State...
...iron consumption of Great Germany will be supplied from domestic sources. Aluminum from bauxite imported from Hungary and the Balkans is supplementing heavier metals, such as copper and nickel. Artificial rubber sufficient for 25 to 30% of the peacetime rubber requirements is being conjured out of limestone and coal...
While the U. S. almost had a coal shortage and Europe as usual was on the verge of war, the editor of Vogue, Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, last week addressed the Shoe Guild on another weighty problem. Said...
...first quarter of 1938) but after paying their fixed charges they were $41,880,000 in the hole.* This loss is likely to increase in the second quarter as receding industrial production drags carloadings down with it. Lately many roads (particularly the B. & O.) have suffered acutely from the coal strike, for carrying coal is a big and profitable traffic...