Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would control more power than the world had ever known. Atomic energy might eventually replace every present source of power-coal, water or oil. An economic revolution was at hand. To lead that revolution some Republicans and some Democrats did not want David Lilienthal. Some military men did not want him either because they thought he was naive and did not know a Red from a patriot...
...Pledged to shivering England (see FOREIGN NEWS) all possible U.S. help (which was politely refused by Prime Minister Attlee); improved the occasion by pointing out that all coal shipments to Europe would be disrupted if Congress didn't hurry up and extend the Maritime Commission's authority to operate ships...
...white. For years both the wise and the merely smart had been pointing to signs of Britain's decline. The loosening bonds of empire, the "austerity" (that dignified synonym for poverty) ; the defensive tension in foreign policy were old symptoms of what was happening. But it took the coal crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS) to bring home to the world the fact that decline had reached the Empire's heart...
Britain's power had grown out of the coal seams of Wales and Yorkshire and Durham. In the same seams her power was exhausted. A British miner produced less than a third as much as a U.S. miner. The reasons why he would not greatly improve his rate of productivity were partly technical and geological; more importantly, they were social and political. The British miner and his fellow, the factory worker (and their bosses), were not looking ahead with much hope. The Government, on which workers and bosses had leaned more & more heavily in recent decades, was dedicated...
...people were thrown out of work. By candlelight, thousands applied for the dole. Shares on London's stock exchange slumped as traders talked about "an industrial Dunkirk." Many towns were without electricity. Housewives queued up for runs on candles and kerosene. Women & children dragged bags of coal from railroad yards...