Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Europe. Does that seem an attempt to monopolize the European market? Is not America encouraging British coal production by Socialist workers, rather than shipping her own coal...
...south portico itself was not added to the White House until 1824, the colonnaded north portico five years later. Other Presidents have made other alterations with & without outcry. Jefferson added wing terraces and long rows of one-story "offices," which also served as "meat house, wine cellar, coal and wood sheds and privies." Buchanan tacked on a glass conservatory, Coolidge raised the roof (unnoticeably from the outside) to find room for eight bedrooms...
Both practices set off public protest, but both worked. Petrillo had one vast advantage over other labor leaders. A music strike, unlike a coal strike, caused little or no public suffering; in fact it hardly diluted the endless flow of recorded sound which dinned daily in the nation's ears. As international president of A.F.M., Petrillo assumed unlimited power. The union's bylaws solemnly assert: "It shall be his duty ... to (a) enforce the constitution, bylaws, standing resolutions or other laws and resolutions or (b) annul or set aside same or any portion thereof . . . and substitute other . . . provisions...
Soft Spot? Already the Yangtze Valley was cut off from wheat and coal from the west. Spearheads of Communist raiders stabbed river defenses west of Hankow, looking for a soft spot southward into the Szechuan and Honan rice fields. If they crossed the Yangtze, they would next try to cut the Canton-Hankow railroad...
...announced, steel production had passed the Cripps target of 14 million tons. Textile production was higher than at any time since war's end. Exports of engineering products such as machinery, vehicles and electrical goods were at twice the 1938 volume. Coal output fell only 300,000 tons short of the 200-million-ton target...