Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devoting only part of his time to the state of his mine workers. He absented himself from negotiations with the operators at White Sulphur Springs and Bluefield, W.Va., and traveled to Springfield, Ill. to visit his 91-year-old mother who was seriously Ill. But the two-week-old coal strike he had imposed upon the nation-and on his 480,000 coal miners-was clearly not accomplishing its purpose...
...week's end, some 50,000 non-U.M.W. miners were digging 400,000 tons of coal a day, about 18% of the nation's normal output. Coal stocks above ground were enough to keep the country running normally for about two months; with steel shut down, the supply would last far longer than that. The miners themselves, with winter to face and grocery bills to pay, were restless...
Northern, southern and western coal operators sat calmly at negotiating tables in West Virginia, apparently willing to wait indefinitely for Lewis to name his terms for a new contract. Lewis had cut output with his "memorial" and "stabilizing" stoppages and the three-day work week; yet he had let his miners dig enough coal to keep them in business...
Steel and coal made the big news. But across the nation's labor fronts three other costly, protracted strikes tugged at the economic lifelines...
...four-motored C-54 dropped down onto Berlin's Tempelhof field, turned off the runway and swung around in the wake of the yellow jeep with the big red-lighted sign: "Follow me." At the unloading stand, its crew climbed down and workmen began unloading its cargo of coal. The Berlin airlift had ended...