Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coal Ultimatum. Hearing how many a potent coal mine operator had declined to accept Secretary of Labor Davis's invitation to a strike-settlement conference (see THE CABINET), Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin, lone Socialist in the House, offered a resolution to have the U. S. take over the coal mines if the operators sought to "continue to rule or ruin, as they see fit, one of the Nation's basic industries." In 1902, when under similar conditions President Roosevelt issued a similar ultimatum, the coal operators surrendered. Last week, the House referred Mr. Berger's resolution...
...year closes, what cabinet of a great Power is so sharply criticised as that of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin? During the past twelvemonth it has broken with Russia, declined to agree with the U. S. on naval limitation, neglected to deal with the desperate British coal situation, and once more rebuffed the expressed desire of Continental nations to gird the League with strength to enforce international settlements. Even should each of these doubtful acts be adjudged sound, their sum total remains negative and barren. Talk rumbles in England that a change at the helm of State is overdue...
Because he is honest and steady-going, no one is alarmed by the brilliant budget jugglery of his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill (TIME, April 18). Because Mr. Baldwin is disinterested and kindly, even coal miners have qualms about believing that his predilection for industrial laissez faire shows him up upon the mine owners side...
...German prosperity is now general and increasing. Business failures are less numerous by half than in 1913. Unemployment has been reduced to 965,000 and is no longer a serious problem. Production is high in the coal, metal, textile and other key industries. The currency of the Republic is absolutely sound...
Explosion is about two men, one a villain, one a hero, who want the same girl. The hero gets her. Like all German films, this one has bright sparks of photographic realism, lighting in this case the smoky darkness of a coal mine. But these sparks flicker and die along the grey and interminable fuse of the story which leads, at last, to a nonexplosive climax...