Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of killed, many wounded, many prisoners. Moreover, it has crippled the financial and economic life of the Reich, undermined political institutions and caused great suffering among the people. The cost to France has also been great. Millions of francs have been expended, lives lost. The gain in coal, etc., has been out of all proportion to the cost or to what France might have got out of the Ruhr by pursuing different tactics...
Governor "Al" Smith has always exhibited a knack for writing good political "copy". Nor is his recent letter to Governor Pinchot, in which he champions all users of hard coal against the monster Pennysylvania, an exception to this rule. His pointed suggestion that the increase in the price of anthracite be entirely absorbed inside the state mining it, will appeal to the citizen with a furnace-and a ballot...
...this lightly sarcastic communication may be characterized as a bit hasty. The settlement effected by Governor Pinchot was admittedly a necessary expedient. Inactive mines were being flooded; stores of winter coal were disappearing in early autumn; unemployed miners and their families were starving. Upon one side was the consumer who said he could pay no more, upon the other the miner who could accept no less. From this mess the Governor of Pennsylvania produced a compromise settlement, and cars of coal were once again seen on out-bound tracks...
Unfortunately this coal was costing sixty cents more per ton. Obviously, now that the voters minds were no longer preoccupied by the shadow of an empty bin, it was a propitious moment for Governors "Al" et al to despatch notes of protest. Their suggestion that she has been collecting from this monopoly, netting her fourteen cents a ton, is worthy of consideration. Also the demand that the operators themselves absorb a large part of the increase, in the light of such flexible profits recently betrayed in gasoline production, is excusable. Both of there are being considered by Governor Pinchot...
...greater hope for a lasting peace than a separate state, sure to invite the envy of one if not both of its great neighbors. Perhaps after all the two countries will be forced to the solution which at the moment seems the most unlikely-an economic union based on coal in the Ruhr and iron in Lorraine, a union gradually cemented into firm understanding and industrial alliance. At least such a plan would offer the hope of lasting peace. And history has before this played tricks as queer...