Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to work, or. of acquiring new and better machines to do their work for them. The "manpower shortage" was also a reflection of the cruel overlap between the old responsibilities of empire and the newly limited capabilities of an impoverished country. In the week of the coal crisis, Britain's Government decided to maintain its armed forces at over a million men. Many (including the Communists) had urged Britain to abandon her commitments in Greece, Palestine and elsewhere, and to cut her Army to the bone. The Times of London replied: "A nation which lives by overseas trade...
...Newcastle. Americans had smugly recognized that Britain's decline must be accompanied by U.S. political expansion into some areas; but this expansion had been visualized in the painless future. The coal crisis in Britain brought U.S. responsibility much nearer for a host of immediate world problems. President Truman offered to send Britain coal; Attlee declined coals for Newcastle, giving a reason that reminded Americans of what it means to have worldwide responsibility. Attlee said continental Europe needed the U.S. coal more than Britain...
That kind of long-range thinking lay behind the familiar symbol of British world leadership-the Houses of Parliament with the coal barges coming up the Thames (see cut). The old landmark of worldwide organization was fading. Was the U.S. ready to take its place...
...Sophie Chimes was determined to get some coal, no matter how little, and no matter if it meant standing all day long in the queue. But after two hours in a bone-chilling wind, Mrs. Chimes collapsed. Neighbors carried her to her small, cold, prefabricated dwelling in the bomb-scarred slums of London's Whitechapel...
...time for doing the 'ouse. In the daytime I'm out queuing for coal and in the evening we get into bed to get warm. My 'usband, 'e's a Labor man, but now 'e don't know what to think. It seems all these politicians are the same once they get into power...