Word: coal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among old-line Socialists, nonetheless, bitterness that was not fully resolved by Gaitskell's 2 to 1 victory over Aneurin Bevan last year for the parliamentary leadership. For Gaitskell--the university-trained son of a middle-class family--not only represents a background that can rankle a tobacco-chewing coal miner like Nye Bevan or a sidewalk hawker like Herbert Morrison, but his Socialist ideas diverge markedly in some respects from "orthodox" party doctrine. Yet Gaitskell's friends feel that his academic training has done him no harm, because he has been able to combine intelligence and ability with shrewd...
...Unwilling to make odious comparisons, Pravda failed to note that the U.S. in 1956 produced 115 million tons of steel, more than 500 million tons of coal, some 350 million tons of oil and 730 billion kw-h of electricity...
Then the Committee got to the red ink. Despite increases over 1955, production of steel, coal, cement and timber in 1956 did not reach the goals set by the Sixth Five Year Plan adopted a year ago. In addition, scowled the Committee, "the plans for housing have been only partly fulfilled," which was a soft way of saying that Russia's desperate housing situation is in terrible shape...
...back to the planners with demands for revision of unrealistic targets, "a decrease in the volume of capital investment, and curtailment of the number of construction projects." Carefully unmentioned was the fact that the Polish and Hungarian revolts had created unexpected new drains on Russia's resources, especially coal...
...first day of 1957, the Saar-that densely populated, industrially rich, and much fought over 898-sq.-mi. territory on the Franco-German border-became the tenth state in the Federal Republic of West Germany. The Saar's people speak German; its ground is heavy with coal needed by the French. The governments of West Germany and France, hoping "to settle the Saar question in such a way that it will no longer be an issue," agreed on political integration into Germany now, economic integration in three years (economically, the Saarlanders profited more under the French welfare state, with...