Word: coal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clue to Hopper's paintings is found in the description of his studio-bare, bright, orderly, still heated by a coal stove-and in the man himself, a man of few words. His pictures are not a moment in time as are those of the impressionists but a moment out of time-pictures that seem to regret change...
...Chinese talked of the "independence" of non-Soviet Communist parties. The East German Communists, present almost to a man, were saying that their independence, in this case meaning their very existence, depended upon immediate economic aid from Russia, now that they were no longer able to steal Polish coal...
...defeated and distraught people, Kadar's weak half-measures (e.g., his arrest and then release of workers' council representatives) have merely served to strengthen the people's stand against him. The result is that half the collective farms remain in the hands of the peasants, coal miners still refuse to work, and much of the country's industry is at a standstill. Last week Kadar's government estimated that 200,000 workers were idle as a result of the coal shortage. Meanwhile, a new wave of slowdown strikes was rising ahead...
...satellites were hit hardest where it hurts most: in coal production, the key to the whole area's economy. A drop in coal output forced Poland to close plants and trim rail schedules, and the Poles have sharply reduced coal exports to satellite neighbors to give priority to their own ailing economy. Because of the cutback in Polish coal, East Germany's vital metalworking industry has been seriously crippled. "The coal problem." said the party organ Neues Dentschland last month, "is a question of our entire people's economy." Industrial production may have to be curtailed...
Strain on Russia. The slump in coal production is only the most glaring of the satellites' economic difficulties. The shattering of Hungary's economy has cut off scarce manufactured goods-buses, railway cars, consumer products-needed by the other satellites. Lack of Hungarian bauxite and processed aluminum is slowly forcing East Germany's young aircraft industry to a halt. Hungary may have to lay off more than 200,000 workers in the next few months, and unemployment is a major problem in Bulgaria. The breakdown of Hungary's vitally located railroad system has prevented the normal...