Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a retiring general and admiral had landed a snug industrial job: the Seabees' Admiral Ben Moreell, onetime Coal Administrator, as chairman of the board of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.; the Army Service Forces' General Brehon Somervell as president of Koppers Co., Inc. of Pittsburgh, at a $75,000 salary; wartime ordnance chief Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr. as an International Harvester Co. vice president; Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle as vice president of Shell Union Oil Corp...
...Coal miner...
...they could be met. They included: exports at 140% of 1938's volume (before The Crisis they were running at less than 115%); increasing the labor force by at least 100,000 (to be drawn principally from Poles in Britain and from Europe's displaced people); increasing coal output to 200,000,000 tons (last year it was 189,000,000 tons). The Government itself had no hope of expanding exports before July...
...rails from the Yorkshire mines to the industrial Midlands, where factories had been given the signal to resume operations this week. Great ice floes, some of them four to six miles long and dotted with thousands of gulls, swept into the Thames estuary. London, which had painfully built up coal stocks, was hard up against it again...
...British press was deluged with letters protesting the speedy way that culture had been dumped out the window when cold came in the door. To save power during the coal crisis, the BBC had consolidated the popular Light (comedy-variety) and Home (slightly more serious) broadcasting programs. The cultural Third Program, which had a listener-audience of only about two million, was quietly done...