Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have discovered a process whereby coal production in any mine can be increased by 250% in three months. I took it to the science exhibition upstairs, but they don't want it. Then on my way out I reflected that this process would be more useful to the Marshall plan...
...Ruhr. M. Schneiter had a point. Coal was the central issue at Paris. And coal meant the Ruhr and Germany. Without Ruhr coal, and without the German industrial output which depends on Ruhr coal, the rest of Europe cannot recover. A Swiss delegate explained it this way: "We have found that Country A needs something which Country B can provide, on condition Country B can get something from Country C, which the latter can provide if she can get something from Country D; and Country D can provide that something-on condition she gets something which only Germany...
Recent developments, Professor Black added, make any precipitous rise in public spending particularly dangerous now. Pointing to numerous wage increases, particularly in the basic industry of coal, Professor Black saw a spending increment made possible by terminal leave cash as an ominous inflation threat...
...present pulling and straining of the Soviet satellites, anxious to get into the only prospect that offers Europe hope, attests the wisdom of the latter argument-from a. Soviet standpoint. Where will Poland find a market for her coal? How can the Russians pay Czechoslovakia for quality factory products? When Molotov at Paris broke Europe along the Stettin-Trieste line, most of the best insurance risks, most of 'he countries with high labor productivity, were not on Molotov's side of the line. If Central and Western Europe begin to revive with U.S. help, Molotov may well find...
...News. Like doting maiden aunts, Britain's press rang fatuous changes on the great news. Headlines were heady with sentiment over the "love match." Austerity, coal crises, rationing and shortages faded from the news columns to make way for reports of the lovers. "Philip," announced one paper solemnly, "turned up Friday with a ring on the little finger. He usually wears it on his second finger." Even the Daily Worker seemed affected by the monarchical atmosphere. "This alliance," it proclaimed with the cold disapproval of a Romanov, "is not to our liking." While the Daily Express polled its readers...