Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon end. Minor walkouts were now occurring even in the Madrid area; a brief uprising among inmates of El Puerto prison on the south coast was quelled peacefully. There was lingering talk of a back-to-work movement among the Asturias miners, but the government's increase in coal prices to provide more cash for the workers made little or no impression. In all, some 60,000 Spanish workers and miners were...
...February issue, for instance, has a long article on Nikolai Mamai, Hero of Socialist Labor, who boosted coal production by inspiring his fellow miners to compete for record outputs. The excerpt below is typical...
...woefully dull that the most absorbing articles in it are those on green tea and tree peonies. The photo features, for example, contain such interesting items as: "After five revolutions the transport service in the Fuhsen mining area has shown marked improvement. Here we see the loading of coal in the Haichu open-cut mine." Another caption: "The nationally renowned 'Flying-Pigeon' Bicycle." And again: "Chiang Yen-shin, who has been promoted from a foundry worker to an engineer, has fulfilled his production target for 69 months running while ensuring excellent quality." (Old Chiang is really smiling.) Finally, what...
Mamai, asked the question would probably have answered, "The country is going to be the winner." His idea was caught up by the thousands of miners in the Donbas and elsewhere. By the end of that year the Donbas had produced its first million tons of coal above plan. The idea spread to other areas of industry, to construction and transport. Everyone wanted to contribute his small brick to the edifice of communism now being built...
Domestic industries such as tobacco are flourishing since the regime banned the import of foreign cigarettes, and nine state-run companies that turn out such basic needs as iron, coal and heavy machinery are making a profit for the first time. Private foreign investment capital is badly needed; West Germany has granted a $27 million loan, and talks are under way with Italy and Norway...