Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What the Luftwaffe and the submarines had failed to do, the coal shortage did this week. A large part of British industry shut down and the economic life of the country seemed to be jolting to a halt...
...blow came during the worst spell of winter within the memory of most Britons. Drifting snow had cut many important rail lines; many roads were blocked. Machinery at some mines was frozen over. The gap between Britain's long-dwindling coal production and consumption had thinned to the point of immediate disaster to Britain's export program and threat to her entire economy...
...Antarctic may even develop into another Klondike, the professor muses, although the only "gold" discovered so far has been black. Transporting coal across the miles of treacherous ice would not be profitable, he says, but if gold or uranium should be found in the region, the race would...
...says I, 'Mister, will you have a few draps?' He blowed an awful sigh, and says he, 'This is a wicked and a perverse generation of vipers, young man.' [But] that shovel-shaped underlip of his jist fell outwards like the fallin door of a coal stove, and he upsot the gourd inside of his teeth. I seed the mark of the truck agoing down his throat jist like a snake travelin through a wet sausage gut. He smelt into the gourd a good long smell, turned up his eyes, and said, 'Barm of life...
LONDON, Monday, Feb. 10-Britain's Labor government throw the switches cutting off electric power to thousands of industries today in order to heard the nation's dangerously depleted coal stocks against the winter...