Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last autumn my dad was mortal sick, and the doctor gave us a priority order for extra coal to keep him warm. The coal came five weeks after we buried him. Mum was sick too. The doctor gave us another priority order. She died in March; her coal came three weeks later. What do you do? You can't refuse coal, even if the reason for it is gone. At least Dad's coal helped...
...Bloody Boss." A coal miner got more terrifyingly close to the heart of Britain's problem, which is that her people won't get more of the things they want until they produce more, and won't produce more until they get more of the things they want. He was one of the absentees whom the Government eloquently exhorts to stay on the job. Asked why Britain's prewar coal production of 230 million tons had fallen below 200 million, the miner said...
...What about the coal you could be digging...
...need more food and more pay-and more to buy with the pay-before we'll dig more coal. Even with what you can earn, there's little to buy in the shops, that's worth buying, that is. Everything good goes for export. Well, they'd better send some of it to mine towns, if they want us to send coal to them. That's the export drive I want...
...Wilson, who was once (at 21) the youngest don at Oxford, succeeded Cripps as president of the Board of Trade. The new Minister of Fuel & Power, Hugh Gaitskell, is, like Cripps, a product of Winchester and New College. Last week Gaitskell advocated fewer baths as a means of saving coal. "Personally," he had told an audience in Hastings, "I have never had a great many baths myself, and I can assure those who are in the habit of having a great many that it does not make a great difference to their health if they have less. As for your...