Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fodder, fertilizer, but forgot gasoline, prepared to substitute charcoal gas generators for gasoline motors. Booming were iron ore shipments to Germany; hard hit were Swedish sawmills and pulp mills whose chief customers were British. Closed were big wood products factories on the Gulf of Bothnia. But Germany was trading coal from newly-seized Polish mines for Swedish fish, berries, iron...
...Belgium, economically threatened, had something more serious to think about. With 30,000 unemployed, skilled workers mobilized and grumbling, coal production down, irony of war gave another turn of the screw-Belgium faced a wheat short age. Monthly consumption is 100,000 tons. Reserves approximate 200,000 tons. Big shipments from South America were detained by Britain. Three Belgium-bound shiploads of barley from North Africa were unloaded in France. Seven thousand tons of maize, destined for Antwerp, were unloaded at Lisbon. It was too early to guess how Belgium's Congo mines would fare. Meantime, while Belgian purchasing...
...Total German coal production: 186,000,000 tons; average production of Polish mines (Upper Silesia and former Czech mines seized last year): 49,000,000 tons, estimated German war needs, at least 300,000,000 tons...
...hrer is mystical, Field Marshal Goring made a good job of it. For home consumption he piled up the cheering news: Victory in Poland within two weeks ("our divisions marched as humans never marched before") would release 70 divisions for the Western Front. At the moment Germany's coal ran short-"and I might say at that very exact moment"-the seizure of Polish mines* relieved the strain. The failure of Britain to attack meant "their desire to fight does not seem too great." Reassuring was the failure of Britain to bomb Berlin. Then there was the hope that...
...year gap of unpublicized performance from which it emerged in 1918, to reveal the young lawyer as Assistant Director of Intelligence in Britain's Wartime Ministry of Information. After the War, Scot Macmillan was a congenital committee chairman: of committees investigating lunacy and mental disorders, street offenses, the coal dispute, the wage dispute in the wool industry, income-tax revision-plodding jobs that won him the confidence of British officials...