Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manny Goes to War. No surprise was the main victim, Emanuel Shinwell, the bungling Fuel & Power Minister who last year gambled on a "green winter" and spectacularly lost. Since then most Britons have had less than no use for "Manny" Shinwell, but the Communists and the coal miners still love him. The Communist secretary of the Mineworkers' Union, Arthur Horner, tried to prevent his removal. Said "li'l Arthur," darkly: "I hope that some men who are popular with the miners and workers will not be sacrificed to please the Tories and Big Business." But when...
Another is Harold Wilson, 31, the youngest President the Board of Trade has ever had.* A star student at Oxford and later a don, he is an expert on coal and a master statistician. The third is George Russell Strauss, 46, the new Supply Minister, who made his mark as the Transport Ministry's parliamentary secretary by brilliant work on the transport nationalization bill...
...there, in the coal-and iron-laden valleys of South Manchuria, the Chinese Nationalists almost literally had their backs to the Wall. They were not yielding lightly, but Chiang's troops were bending backwards under the weight of the sixth major thrust by the Chinese Communists since...
...planned as the modern stone & steel capital city of Manchuria, was surrounded., The big iron works at Anshan (or what remained after Russian removals following V-J day) were at the edge of the Nationalist line, 55 miles south of Mukden. Communists pressed nearer the great open-pit coal mines at Fushun...
...Washington, Government officials talked of a coal shortage in many cities this winter. U.S. coal production was off so much that adequate stockpiles for winter could not be built up. In Oregon, some lumber mills had so much wood stacked around that they had to close for lack of storage space...