Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herbert Samuel. The logical person to whisper about conciliatorily among the stern-faced, set-lipped combatants was, of course, the man who chairmaned the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19), the impartial investigator who presumably knew more than any other man in England about the friction in the coal industry which ultimately generated first the "coal strike" and the "general strike." Fortunately this man, Sir Herbert Samuel, is of such outstanding ability as to have become one of the four Jews who have held British Cabinet posts. Adroit but upright, he won fame as a conciliator while High Commissioner...
...Memorandum recommended: 1) Temporary renewal of the coal subsidy (TIME...
...Creation of a National (coal) Wage (revision) Board, representing miners and owners equally and having a neutral chairman with a casting vote; 3) Revision of wages to proceed on the explicit understanding that the Royal Coal Commission's recommendations for increasing the efficiency of the coal industry are to be given effect; 4) Legislative measures for reconstructing the coal industry to be prepared by a Government-named committee partly representative of the miners...
...largest trust in Germany was formed (TIME, April 12)- the United Steel Works, combination of the Thyssen, the Phoenix, the Rheinstal and the Deutsch Luxembourg. Dillon, Read & Co. financed the merger with $30,000,000 to $50,000,000. Fritz Thyssen, son of August who was the great German coal and iron magnate, is chairman of the new company, which will have an annual capacity output of 3,700,000 tons of steel, 2,500,000 tons of pig iron, 8,000,000 tons of coke and 30,000,000 of coal...
This moderate offer, unsatisfactory though it is from the human standpoint, is probably the best practical plan for placing the coal industry on a sound basis. With British fondness for the workable solution, the disputants will in all probability accept the Premier's offer in principle. Anglo-Saxons have no desire to chase immaterial utopias...