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Word: coaling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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President of the Grolier Club is tall, forthright, weathered Harry Twyford Peters, who "works for a living" as a coal merchant, but whose real business is more varied. He is 1) co-Master of the Meadow Brook Hounds, one of the foremost U. S. hunt clubs; 2) leading U. S. authority on fox hunting, author of Just Hunting (1936); 3) inspirer of the national enthusiasm for Currier & Ives, owner of some 15,000 of their prints, author of four scholarly tomes on antique U. S. lithographs; 4) owner of perhaps the world's best private library of sporting books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Foxes and Folios | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...Europe this winter no ordinary citizen will travel far in his own country except toward war or exile: coal is scarce. Few will have enough heat. Fewer still will eat enough food, for Europe's food supply is reduced 15% by blockade, another 15% by poor harvests. Not one in a thousand will drive his own car when and where he pleases or read uncensored news or listen to unpropagandized broadcasts. Comfortable clothing will be a luxury. Many will die of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, typhus or cholera. Of Europe's 525,000,000 people, some millions, probably never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter in Europe | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...blockade had cut off more than 80% of Italian imports, 90% of imports of oil and fats. The cotton reserve would be exhausted by the end of 1940, rubber and wool shortly thereafter. The price charged by Germany for coal hauled across the Alps made heat a luxury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter in Europe | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...roulette tables at Joe Farren's, the Park Hotel's Sky Terrace. Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon's Tower Night Club had none of their old sparkle. Gangsters who had plundered weapons from dead soldiers on nearby battlefields turned Shanghai into a Little Sicily. With rice and coal under Japanese control, the bodies of starved Chinese were picked up in the streets by hundreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Vanishing Metropolis | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...them the tax was prohibitive. e.g., $1,200 on a $1,500 automobile. To help Britain pay for her increasing purchases of war goods in Canada, on the other hand, the budget removed all duties on a long list of British manufactures: cotton and silk goods, furniture, marmalade, soft coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Hard Realities | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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