Word: coale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Do You Want? Aboard the train, the Congressmen compared notes and saw some eye-openers. One group had questioned the eleven-man council of Germans who represented the workers in Essen's coal mines...
...they would close only a third of the gap between what Britain sold abroad and what she bought abroad. The other side of the scale was British production. A higher production rate was supposed to close the other two-thirds of the import-export gap. If every coal miner worked five minutes more a day, for instance, he would produce as much in exports as the British Government hopes to save by the new gasoline restrictions. What were the chances that British production would rise...
...Yorkshire last week the chances did not look bright. There some 16,000 coal miners went out on an unauthorized strike over the Government's request that they work harder in return for a five-day week. In vain burly Will Lawther, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, pleaded with them. "This is sheer anarchy," he cried, "more than criminal at a time like this." A miner in Armthorpe summed up the long-smoldering disappointment of his fellows: "Nationalization don't make no difference. There's still the bloody boss...
Today Dr. Salsbury's 150-bed mission hospital is the reservation's showpiece. Salsbury has four assistants (three of them Chinese) and has trained scores of Indian nurses. He also runs a high school, a home-economics school, an ice plant, a power plant, a coal mine (the mission digs all its own fuel...
...addition to his crowded lectures, he will also be busy "tooting" his 18-odd tutorial pupils. At regular intervals they will come, singly or in pairs, to read him their essays in his handsome, white-paneled college room overlooking the deer park, or (when there is not enough coal or wood to keep it warm) in his tiny, book-crammed inner study. Lewis has informed the BBC that he is through with radiorat-ing, for an indefinite period. He has no immediate plans for further "popular" books, fantastic or theological. But Lewis admirers may not have too long to wait...