Word: coale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coal black man drive the Freedom Train...
Chairman: As much coal as before...
Observed a suave British officer of the North German Coal Control: "That would be an excellent bargain but we've not the food to give them...
...resolution would actually give the Labor Government control of the coal miners who could make or break Britain. Last week, at the peak of the wildcat coal strike that started at Grimethorpe in Yorkshire, 70,000 miners were out of the pits. Already the strike had cost Britain 400,000 tons of precious coal. When the National Coal Board asked Grimethorpe miners to increase their daily stint (from digging 21 feet of coal daily to 23 feet) the strike began...
...down gripes about style and quality, hustled back to their factories to make what improvements they could. Another snag was the shortage of raw materials. Those who tried to supply them got no help from SCAP. Example: Gordon Behr, of Los Angeles' Yaras & Co., offered to ship enough coal from the U.S. to assure production of some sheet steel his company wanted to order. But SCAP, constrained by the needs of the still shaky occupation economy, refused to guarantee that the coal would not be used for some other purpose...