Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...families of Kuomintang members who had died fighting Japanese and Communists, Soong donated his personal shares in three subsidiaries of the China Development & Finance Corp. (which operates railroads, coal mines, power plants). Commented the China Press: "Commendable magnanimity. ... A clarion call for action. . . . Those with wealth know what they should...
Last week some 40,000 coal miners at Grimethorpe and other Yorkshire mines, who have doggedly resisted Government attempts to get them back to work, agreed to dig coal again. Their 35-day strike had cost Britain some 570,000 tons of coal...
...From the pulpit of Washington's All Souls Unitarian Church, the Rev. A. Powell Davies denounced longer skirts. Long skirts are "immoral," he declared, because they "will deprive the shivering people of Europe of the wool they need to keep them warm in a coal-less winter...
Clayton told them that the 16 nations must plan more positive steps to increase their own production and pool their own resources. For example, Britain must schedule more coal production, France more wheat. The nations must set up a supervisory body to check up on promises to meet higher production goals. And the "bill" of dollar needs for the next four years, already cut from $29 billion to $20.6 billion, must be cut even further if the plan was to win congressional approval...
Britain's socialists had no monopoly of crisis. In France, Premier Paul Ramadier's Government was wobbling; French economy was heading toward collapse. Industry was hamstrung by coal shortages, strikes and absenteeism. With exports for the first half of 1947 $500 million less than imports, the French dollar reserve was down to $400 million. Drought had shriveled half the wheat crop. Scarce dollars must be diverted to buying food...