Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High on George Marshall's priority list was the problem of Western Germany. If trade with the British and American zones can be restored, there will be more coal for France (which needs coal even more than dollars), more freight for the Dutch canals and Belgian railways, more prosperity-and fewer fire alarms-for Western Europe in general...
...Industrial Charter opposed Socialist nationalization in principle, but was cagily diffident when it came down to cases. It agreed that coal and the Bank of England should remain nationalized; only on iron and steel was it flatly opposed to Government ownership. On controls, the main Tory target for many months, it was surprisingly cautious: "Some controls will have to be continued until abundance overtakes scarcity...
When Gordon Richards broke his first big record, at England's Liverpool track 14 years ago, the news was considered important enough to be telephoned to Buckingham Palace. A mite of a man, son of a Shropshire coal miner, Jockey Richards, by riding 247 winning thoroughbreds in one season, had outdone Fred Archer's 1885 British record.* Richards' own comment hardly seemed up to the occasion. Said he: "It's been a very trying time for me and I'm very glad it's over...
...nosegay on a grave, Miss Josephine Roche last week paid the first liquidating dividend of her bankrupt Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., the company the United Mine Workers loved. The dividend of 25? on each of the company's 758,720 shares of common stock came from sales of coal lands and royalties from mines leased to other companies...
...When liquidation is completed, in five or six years, Lewmurken, which owns 23% of the company, may have received as much as $300,000 in all. But the U.M.W. is shedding no tears over its loss. It was richly repaid in the unionization of all Colorado coal mines...