Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million of coal in 1948; a total of $700 million in the next four years...
First and foremost, Europe's production effort must be recharged with food, fuel, power, transport and equipment. Said the report: "More food for miners means more coal; more coal means more steel; this in turn makes it possible to produce more mining and agricultural machinery to produce more coal and more food, and more transport equipment to enable the increased supplies of coal to flow smoothly from the pits." The plan specifically included western Germany...
France's Government had long put off telling the French people the facts of France's economic life. Now it could no longer conceal them. To conserve coal, electricity in Paris was cut off for two days a week. To save meat, butchers were allowed to open their shops only two days, over the weekend. Drastic gasoline cuts made taxis a rarity. Bread was harder to get than at any time since World War I. The reason for all this: beginning Oct. 15, France will have no dollars to buy the things which she has not been able...
Just what would lack of dollars mean to Frenchmen? Each month France has been using 5,500,000 tons of coal. But she has been producing only 4,000,000 tons. After October France can no longer buy the extra 1,500,000 tons a month from the U.S. French industrial production will drop 50%; French homes will have no coal...
Young was quite prepared for the attacks of such opponents as the Virginian Railway, a C. & 0. competitor in the coal-hauling business; of old enemies in the Nickel Plate, whose control he had given up; and of the Chrysler Corp., which said that it feared higher freight rates for automobiles because of less railroad competition. But Young was not prepared for a sharp heel in the teeth from the bride-to-be herself...