Word: coale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comfort to the Reds. In France the agreement produced a political and spiritual crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS). German antiCommunists, the very people the move was designed to help, regarded it as an insult and an injury. German leaders meeting in Düsseldorf to discuss an increase in Ruhr coal production proclaimed self-righteously: "International control of the Ruhr is not justified, because the German authorities are themselves unanimously determined never to allow the Ruhr to become a threat to peace . . ." Cried a cocky German labor leader: "Do you really believe the miners are going to work harder when they...
...weeks, representatives of the U.S., Britain, France and the Benelux countries have been meeting in London's drafty, sepulchral India House. Their problem sounded simple. Western Germany, with its coal and iron resources, is Europe's industrial heart, on whose soundness the Marshall Plan, and Europe's future, depend. Since the Russians have consistently sabotaged every four-power action that would give Western Germany (or any part of Germany) the political organization and the economic incentive to go to work for Europe's benefit, the Western powers had to see what they could do by themselves...
Communists did more than talk. A new rash of Communist-inspired strikes broke out in Italy. In the north, dairy and ricefield workers struck. Sicilian dockworkers and Sardinian coal miners threatened to join. In the Red fortress of Bologna, Communists called a 24-hour general strike. The objects of Communist parliamentary and trade-union tactics: to trip up the government as it inched toward stability...
Died. Harry Twyford Peters, 66, coal merchant, latter-day popularizer of Currier & Ives, owner of the world's largest (5,000) collection of their prints; after long illness; in Manhattan. Collector Peters, also a fancier of horses & hounds, was Master of Fox Hounds at Long Island's famed Meadow Brook Club and U.S. dean of M.F.H.s when he retired...
...Hard Coal. Producers of more than 50% of the nation's hard coal raised prices from 20? to 30? a ton. The mine operators said the increases would meet an expected demand for higher wages by John L. Lewis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Dealers said they would have to pass the increases along to consumers...