Word: coal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union in the next 15 years can not only catch up with the U.S. in the production of basic items but also outstrip it." Some Khrushchev estimates of Russia's 1972 production: steel, 110 to 132 million tons; oil, 2.4 to 2.7 billion barrels; coal, 715 to 825 million tons; electric power, 800 to 900 billion...
...production last year: steel, 115 million tons; oil, 2.6 billion barrels; coal, 575 million tons; electric power, 684 billion...
...Experimenters traveled by public transportation, which Lorenz described as "amazing" in its inadequacy. The trains are practically freight cars with coal smoke blowing in open windows, only wooden benches to sit on, and peasants standing in the aisles. The rail-roads sell about three times as many tickets as seats...
Instead of borrowing from the United States and West Germany, as France will undoubtedly have to do to fight inflation, she might well loan herself out--on a short term perhaps--to neighboring countries. West Germany will get French coal eventually--why not annex eastern France to Germany directly? Besides, coal is dirty, and nobody else seems to want it. England, on the other hand, has wanted western France for centuries; there is little reason why she shouldn't have a crack at it now. With a little American financing the British might not do too badly in administering...
...appease traditionalists, the French would retain Paris, operating it like the Free City of Danzig. A further incentive might be to append the name "French" to the new political regions, as "German-French Coal-Mining District" or "Italian-French Riveria," and require that at least one Frenchman participate on the executive board of the new governments...