Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pressure of Prices. The pressure which might provoke the fit was continuing high prices. Labor had behaved with laudable restraint. With the exception of the always exceptionable coal miners, there had not been a major new strike in six months.* But labor could not sit still forever. Labor figured that if prices stayed up any longer, wages would have to go up. And if another spiral plunged the nation into a bust, then industry would have to answer for it. To a large degree, labor was right...
After their month and a half of disastrous cold, snow, and coal shortage, it seemed as if most Britons were resigned to desolation and actually expected the floods which engulfed them last week. The people accepted inundated houses, loss of work and wages, huge losses in agriculture and livestock, as just added afflictions...
From northern Shropshire down to the Bristol Channel, the Severn swirled over its highest known flood marks. Many Yorkshire mine pits were inundated-another serious setback for coal production...
MOSCOW, March 20--France and Great Britain split tonight on the future disposition of Germany's coal resources in the first serious disagreement among the western powers at the Council of Foreign Ministers...
Foreign Minister Georges Bidault notified the Council that France could not consent to economic reconstitution of Germany unless the other powers agreed to her demands for guarantees of German coal...