Word: coale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain," said one committeeman, "is disintegrating in the greatest order ever displayed, and France is recovering in the greatest chaos imaginable." The key to Britain's recovery was production of coal, and in that effort Britain had fallen flat. Miners, in fear of mechanization, clung to old methods, persisted in working the short week because more than half their extra day's pay would have to go to the Government in taxes...
...Coat. TIME'S Rome Bureau reported a parallel situation: "The Marshall Plan, a solid propaganda success, pinned the Italian Communists down to an excruciatingly painful issue. How could they ask the Italian people to trust them with the task of reconstruction when everybody knew that the only grain, coal and money that Italy could get had to come from...
...Lota-its mine galleries reaching out under the sea, its underhoused town, its undernourished children. One of the reports says that no Chilean family can subsist on less than 65 pesos ($2.60) daily. But 33-year-old Juan Soto, a typical miner, who has dug Lota's coal for 16 years, gets 30 pesos for an eight-hour day's work. Neither he nor his wife and three small children remember having ever bought cheese or fruit, but they do get some milk...
Because hard-pressed Chile needed Lota's coal to keep railroads and power plants going, President Gabriel González Videla sent troops to Lota, used his emergency powers (TIME, Sept. 1) to order strikers back to the mines, offered a 40% wage increase. At week's end, the miners still stood fast...
...Learned Coal Man. For entertainment of another kind, London music lovers in 1678 went to a small room above a coal shop in Jerusalem Passage. There, every Thursday night for 40 years, Thomas Britton, "the Musical Small-Coal Man," gave the capital's best concerts. He hawked coal by day in the streets, once a week saw his loft "filled with rank and fashion; every distinguished foreigner who came to London was treated to one of Thomas Britton's concerts . . . scholars, famous musicians and dilettanti were glad to sit with him and enjoy the taste and learning displayed...