Word: coale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With that milestone passed, ECA sized up its accomplishments. Even while Europe argued over how to divide allotments, ECA had approved shipments to Europe totaling $1.49 billion. The major allotments had been for wheat ($230 million), coal ($128 million), petroleum ($127 million), cotton ($111 million), nonferrous metals ($89 million), meat ($64 million), industrial equipment ($48 million), tobacco ($26 million...
...United Mine Workers' elegant Washington headquarters last week, an arthritic, ruptured coal miner received the first old-age pension check issued from the union's welfare fund...
White-haired Horace M. Ainscough, 62, first went down the pits in 1895 in Lancashire, England, and finally retired from the Union Pacific Coal Co.'s mines in Rock Springs, Wyo. last February. His pension, retroactive to the day he retired: $100-a-month. Said Ainscough: "God bless the day John L. Lewis was born...
...John L. it was a demonstration that the coal industry can and should take care of its injured and aged. Said he: "We are setting up America's best insurance policy against Communism or any other kind of 'ism' and against those who believe that it is the function of the State to regulate completely the lives of all men who are citizens of that State...
...into National Steel Corp. (27% Hanna-controlled). Long before the industry itself woke up to the fact, Humphrey discovered that Cleveland's Industrial Rayon Corp. was revolutionizing the rayon industry by a continuous spinning process; Hanna bought control (17%). In 1945 he merged some of Hanna's coal interests into the mammoth new Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. (57% Hanna), and became boss of the world's biggest bituminous coal producer...