Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wirtz compared the current era of labor-management crisis* with the period just after World War I. the sitdown strikes of the 1930s. and the coal-rail-steel strikes of the late 1940s. Said he: "It doesn't matter any more, really, how much the hurt has been real, or has been exaggerated. A decision has been made. And that decision is that if collective bar gaining can't produce peaceful settlements of these controversies, the public will...
Britain did much to arrange her own fate. In 1950, London was offered membership in the European Coal and Steel
...waves of criticism rolled over him, De Gaulle loftily dismissed suggestions that his proposals might break up the entire Common Market scheme. "Nobody will quit the Common Market," he sniffed at a reception for members of the French Parlia ment. "Italy, for example. We send her iron and coal, and we buy her pasta and Fiats. She's very happy." As for Britain, he snapped contemptuously, "Britain has given back to America what atomic force she had. She could just as well have turned it over to Europe. Well, she's chosen...
Dynamited Danube. In the bitter cold, many nations suffered acute fuel shortages. In the U.S., the mayor of Huntsville, Ala. declared an emergency because of rapidly vanishing natural gas supplies. The British government organized a 4,000-truck coal convoy to bring fuel into freezing communities, and the nation's serious unemployment problem worsened as farms and construction firms laid off tens of thousands of workers because of the cold. In Paris, the French Cabinet ordered that priority on coal deliveries be given to the aged. As Yugoslavian factories began to shut down for lack of heat, coal miners...
Robens' efforts won such respect that he was made a baron. But many Britons continued to receive with frank disbelief his predictions that the coal industry was about to turn the corner. Last week, however, when the Coal Board released its 1962 report, the skeptics were confounded: with profits of $3,000,000, the board was in the black for the first time in six years...