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Coal Power and the Missing Cars Plague a Mine
A Pennsylvania coal mine laments output cut from 1600 to 750 tons daily due to car shortages and rail chaos. It details January 1918 losses of 32 995 tons, staff reductions, and workers migrating to munition plants and steel mills, with West Virginia mines facing similar bottlenecks as railroads struggle amid blizzards.
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