Word: coale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing was happening. Russia's brutal siege of Berlin had shaken Western Germany out of a surly indifference. In Hamburg, Bremen and Lower Saxony, local governments passed resolutions pledging one full day's ration from each citizen. In the Ruhr, German authorities ordered 100,000 tons of coal, which had been earmarked for Ruhr homes, to be flown to Berlin instead. "We weren't at all sure before that you were determined to stay in Berlin," said a Frankfurt shopkeeper. "When you started these endless supply planes we knew you meant business...
...green-uniformed rebel band took over the small mining town of Batuarang, just north of the placid Malayan capital of Kuala Lumpur. While some of the rebels pinned the police to their barracks with heavy automatic fire, others expertly sabotaged the coal mine-the only one operating in all Malaya. Shooting up a school bus and murdering a foreman and four workers, 37 of the bandits, including a teen-age girl, swept down on the railway station and held up an incoming train. The rebel leader emptied the railroad cash box, snapped: "We only want European property. We are going...
...with the original idea of the 19th Century Scotsmen. When they got through, they had engines that weigh only 10 to 20 Ibs. per horsepower and are about as efficient as diesels. Their simplicity makes them cheap to maintain, and they burn almost any fuel, from oil to coal or corncobs...
...were the Russians after? Facing an increasingly hostile German population, their position was not much more enviable than the West's. They were simply beating against the West's weakest salient to win either its surrender-or the even bigger prize of a new conference, with Ruhr coal on the table. What could the U.S. do about it? Washington's diplomatic counterattack-which must strive not merely for present Russian withdrawal but for guarantees against future assaults-could start with a formal protest to Moscow (which was being readied this week). The next possible steps: U.N. discussion...
Down the Middle. Manhattan's National City Bank warned that inflation was hurting the "middle class" to the point of undermining its "social and civic responsibility" and "creating the seeds of depression." Taking 1930 living standards as 100, the bank reckoned that the average coal miner was now up to 191, the auto worker to 132, the teacher to 109, while the small stockholder was down to 79, the rail executive to 78, the pensioner to 65, the wealthy stockholder...