Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Show Your Courage." As "economic and administrative sanctions" against the Western powers, the Russians last week stopped all food trains from the Western zones on which Berlin depends for survival; cut the Western sectors' electricity in half (by halting their own contribution to it); blocked all coal shipments for Berlin industries; forbade the city government to distribute any food outside the Soviet sector; cut off all milk supplies from the Soviet zone. They even cut medicine supplies, but yielded under an American threat to withhold penicillin...
After that, the rest was easy. The coal operators caved in quickly and signed a contract which was a complete victory for John. It calls for: 1) a $1-a-day wage increase;* 2) renewal of a union shop; 3) a boost in the welfare-fund royalty from 10? to 20? a ton. Estimated cost to the operators: more than $200 million a year. Expected increase in the price of coal...
Seconds before the crash, the DC-6 roared 100 feet over the floor of a narrow valley near Mt. Carmel. It was heading into a coal mine's tall breaker building. Then it veered-and the next instant there was no more plane. It rammed a 66,000-volt transformer and disintegrated in a flash of flame. It was 1948's worst airline disaster, and the fourth worst in U.S. domestic airline history...
...Soviets do their skinning? Simple. You turn back 27 freight trains loaded with coal for Berlin factories, because the "cars are defective." You halt passenger traffic because "the stations are congested." Then you close the Autobahn bridge across the Elbe for "urgent repairs." Now, on the one precarious road to the West still open to the Western powers, jeeps and buses bounce over ten miles of a cobblestone detour, push onto a creeping, motorless ferry. When someone asks the German policeman aboard how the bridge repairs are coming, he grins: "You don't think they are real...
Steel. Although steel production reached 7,564,626 net tons in May, a new peacetime record, cutbacks resulting from the coal strike were still felt by motor-makers. General Motors closed down its Michigan operations and laid off 200,000 men for a week in order to accumulate enough steel for continuous production. The Ford Motor Co. closed down...