Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago, had slapped him and his union with a $3,510,000 fine (later reduced to $710,000) for being in contempt in a similar case. There was a suspicion also that Lewis saw a chance to humiliate Harry Truman by throwing credit for solving the coal strike to GOP Speaker Joe Martin...
...with 20 years' service, no matter when they quit. Van Horn had never made any proposal; he had simply maintained that Lewis' plan was not legal and could never be supported on the 10? royalty which the operators are required to pay on every ton of coal mined...
...last week, the strike of 400,000 miners had thrown out of work some 135,000 workers in dependent industries. All U.S. industry had suffered; railroads were preparing to cut their coal-burning operations...
...till, some peace to enjoy, vote Communist; if you believe in God, fear Communisn, hate tyranny, vote Christian Democrat.) I drove to the imposing stone building which houses the U.S. Embassy, talked about the bread and pasta from America which alone have saved Italians from starvation; of the American coal which alone has kept Italy's railways running and its blast furnaces roaring. Would not all these things, for which the U.S. asked neither thanks nor service, be enough to persuade the Italian people to vote for their own freedom, against Communism? We knew it was possible...
Last January the British Foreign Office released a hair-raising document called "Protocol M" (TIME, Jan. 26). It purported to be a Cominform blueprint for a Communist-led general strike in the Ruhr aimed at crippling coal production and hampering the Marshall Plan. Its deadline for action was March...