Word: coal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oldfashioned nationalization," as Gaitskell called it, is no longer Labor doctrine (even doctrinaire Socialists found the experience disillusioning). The report cheered the past nationalization of rails, coal and electric power, and renewed its vow again to nationalize the steel and trucking industries, which the Tories restored to private ownership in 1953. But the policy that Gaitskell says must "supersede" the old way is a vague threat to authorize the state "to extend public ownership in any industry or part of industry which . . . is found to be seriously failing the nation." Presumably even this was a sop to the Bevanites...
English Painter Arthur Fretwell, 38, who makes a living as the art master of the church school at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, received an interesting letter last January. It came from Nathaniel Montague. Lane, 68, the diocesan architect who designed the Anglican Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in the nearby coal-mining town of Mansfield. Architect Lane, with only limited funds, wanted to know if Fretwell would like to paint five pictures of incidents from the Virgin Mary's life for the church's gallery. There was only one condition: "The more controversial the panels are, the better...
...three, B.A.S.F. saw its Rhineside plant at Ludwigshafen 45% bombed out, started up again in 1945 with only 800 workers. Today the smoky, sprawling plant is Western Europe's biggest chemical unit with 36,600 workers. B.A.S.F. also employs 11,000 at its Auguste-Victoria coal mine in the Ruhr. Masterminding B.A.S.F.'s comeback is its wartime head, Chairman Carl Wurster, 56, who was acquitted at Nurnberg on charges of plundering occupied countries and employing slave labor...
...immensity of this wealth is overshadowed only by the difficulty of tapping it. To bring the iron ore to port, France would have to spend $435 million to build 780 miles of desert railroad, a new Atlantic harbor. The coal transportation problem is equally...
From Haymarket Square you can go on down Hanover Street through Little Italy, by the Union Oyster House to the docks in one direction, and the coal yards by North Station in the other. After that, you cross the river, past the Navy Yard and Bunker Hill, and aren't in Boston any more