Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lord of the coal mines did not say how long his order would stay in effect; it would undoubtedly last at least until the coal operators signed a new contract...
...Savior No other single man in the U.S., including the President, could have done it, but John L. Lewis did. Last week, playing his role as liege lord and savior, he put a $3 billion industry-all of the East's soft-coal mines-on a three-day week...
John L.'s presumption that he was coming to the rescue of the industry-as well as nearly 400,000 soft-coal diggers of his United Mine Workers-had some basis in fact. As a result of overproduction, diminishing demands and skidding prices, the soft-coal mines were indeed facing the perilous possibility of a cutthroat price war. If it came to the pinch, a lot of little companies might be destroyed and a lot of John's miners would be out of jobs...
...rotund phrases he pointed out, in the midst of negotiations for a new contract, that a three-day week would both spread the work and shore up coal prices...
...legged Communist named Idris Williams sat last week in a tall office building with his back to the winter view of beautiful Sydney Harbor. Two hundred seagoing ships were tied up there for lack of freight or bunker coal. Australians were shivering in heatless houses. Electricity for cooking, lighting and hot baths was rationed, and 650,000 had been thrown out of work because their factories had no coal. Comrade Williams, president of the Miners Federation, had called a coal strike...