Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ostensible purpose of these concessions was to give to the British exclusive control of practically all future development of mineral rights in Panama, excepting oil, coal, salt and mineral waters...
Throughout the week the British coal strike (TIME, May 10, et, seq.) continued so completely deadlocked that representatives of the Government, the Miners' Federation and the Owners' Association never so much as conferred...
...only did Premier Baldwin's plan of conciliation (TIME, May 24) go begging, but his time-limited offer to extend the coal subsidy was ignored by both embattled groups...
With 1,000,000 miners idle and seemingly intent upon continuing so, the Government by an elaborate system of coal rationing cut normal consumption 50%. The King, after planning a holiday at Aldershot and Sandringham, canceled the special train which would have conveyed him thither in order to save coal. The normal railway service was cut 40%. The channel boats coaled exclusively abroad, and large shipments of foreign coal arrived on every steamer...
...TIME, May 24.) It envisions the temporary acceptance by the miners of a lowered wage to be set by a National (Coal) Wage (Revision) Board, and a 'imited amount of Government financial aid while the coal industry is being reorganized on lines laid down by the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, March...