Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts & figures to explain his confidence. In the four months since the Allied currency reform was put into effect, he reported, the total production of Western Germany had risen a staggering 35%. Steel production was up from an annual rate of 2,500,000 to 7,000,000 tons; coal, from 275,000 tons to more than 300,000 tons a day. Said Clay: "Everywhere labor and management have new hope, and soon Germany's recovery will be felt in filling the trade vacuum which has existed in Western Europe...
...money. In one drastic piece of surgery, Bizonia's economic authorities called in all the old currency, issued only one new mark for ten of the old. Along with this severe bloodletting, the patient was given his economic freedom: all price ceilings were lifted, except for basic foods, coal, iron and steel...
Machines for Herr Donath. What is left of German industry is working full blast. Production has nearly doubled in a year, is now at 70% of the 1936 level. Coal output has climbed to over 300,000 tons a day. Steel production has risen to a rate of 7,000,000 tons a year...
News of Bob Knetzer's magic formula spread quickly beyond Southern Illinois' coal and farm country. St. Louis and Springfield gangsters, who would rather go without a rod than a Cadillac, scurried with cash in hand to Bob's classy showroom, across the street from Edwardsville's courthouse. Orders came from as far away as California and South America. Cash poured in, cars rolled out and Bob, at 37, was rich...
This grim prospect had been brought closer by the galloping inflation, by the political bankruptcy of the Queuille government, and by the Communist-called coal strikes which were costing France $3,000,000 a day-almost exactly as much as she was getting from EGA. Overshadowing these factors was the growing realization of Frenchmen that the world conflict between Russia and the West could not be sidestepped. Frenchmen now applied this new view of the world struggle to their own national problems. The bright fiction of a "third force" between Communism and its opponents was dying hard...