Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was more than 80% of what Berlin's west sectors used to get by land before the Russians started their blockade; besides food and coal it included the other things that make a city hum: machinery and industrial raw materials. West Berliners now get 2,000 calories of food a day, 270 more than when Berlin was supplied by land...
...things that contributed to his repentance, said Naumov, was American literature. "When I read books describing the lives of Negroes in America and Upton Sinclair's King Coal on the sufferings of workers in America, I was depressed because the money taken from them by the capitalists was given...
...Vote for Peace!" Last month the commission began a purge of provincial Communist leaders, particularly in the coal-mining north, where the heresy of "Titoism" has been gaining ground. When Armand Moche, president of the miners' union of the Nord Department, was dismissed, he shouted, "You are leading France to ruin!" and stalked out, slamming the door...
...Communists. In Peiping, Li's unofficial peace delegation found some signs of Communist cooperation-in matters where the Reds stood to gain by cooperation. Two Nationalist freighters were on the way north loaded with flour for workers in the Communist-ruled Kailan mines. They would return with coal desperately needed in Shanghai...
...wanted me to fly him to Bermuda, but I never got the chance. This was the only way . . ." And for a more solid tug at the heartstrings, there was a Harlem mother in tearful collapse after her daughter, little Carmelita Rodriguez, and her playmate had been killed by a coal truck in a "safe" play street...