Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Florida the sun shone brightly on a group of old men. There was 76-year-old Bill Green, a little deafer and shakier than he was last year; Big Bill Hutcheson, of the carpenters; Dan Tobin, of the teamsters; John Lewis, of the coal miners. They, and eleven others, were the executive council of the A.F.L., the bosses of more than 7,000,000 workingmen, assembled at Miami's Alcazar Hotel for their annual winter powwow...
...budding in Wales withered in the frost. Alarming reports came from Kent, where snowed-in pubs were running out of beer. But the cold wave brought far more serious hardships and economic dangers to Britain. Trains and trucks stood idle, schools and factories had to shut down as the coal shortage shut off heat and electric power. Office workers strained their eyes by candlelight. Water mains and pipes broke everywhere (since Britons stubbornly cling to the illusion that their winters are never very cold, water mains are not buried deep enough and many homes have rickety, poorly insulated "afterthought" plumbing...
...Berlin, police arrested more than 200 coal thieves in one week, while citizens queued up for their meager fuel rations (see cut). In one instance, the cold brought a negative kind of relief: it halted (temporarily) the expulsion of Germans from Polish-held regions in the east. Perhaps the best example of what the cold wave meant to Europe's plain people was furnished by a refugee from that area, whose case was reported by TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth...
...schedule in mid-1946, the first through train in eight years made the Canton-Hankow run. By November, Director Tu had three expresses going each week. Now he has one daily leaving both north and south terminals. In half a year passenger and freight (rice, relief goods, tung oil, coal) mileage has doubled. Along the right of way, at every station, aswarm with people on the move, and ashrill with vendors of rice, cabbage, noodles and pig's ears, you can see a region's economic life, however shabby and stunted by American standards, stirring out of torpor...
Outside railroads, Alleghany Corp. has some ten subsidiaries. The chief one is the Pittston Co., a holding company for various coal-mining interests. Outside Alleghany Corp., Bob Young's biggest investment is in Pathe Industries, Inc., a catch-all holding company. Its chief subsidiaries make, process and distribute movies. Young has already poured $20,000,000 into his new producing subsidiary, Eagle-Lion Films, Inc., hopes to turn it into a major Hollywood studio. For Eagle-Lion, Young has made a deal with British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank to distribute ten of his pictures in the U.S. while Rank...