Word: coalmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coalmen everywhere were finding business harder & harder to hold on to. This was due to: 1) Lewis, whom coalmen call "the best oil salesman in the country"; 2) the greater efficiencies and cleanliness of oil and natural gas; 3) the rise in coal prices and drop in oil prices, which has put oil on a competitive footing with coal. On the East Coast alone switchovers from coal to oil have cut this year's coal sales at least 20% below...
...price Lewis had exacted from the nation's economy was calculable. Coalmen estimated that the additional cost of mining, in which labor runs to more than 60%, would run between $400 million and $1 billion a year...