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I'J^'DON.— lf~®ritain not reducei.-Hhe price'of coal, the cost of manufactured goods for home use and export would be beyond the reach of purchasers and Britain would find herself on i|oe wyjy to ruin, said Mr Alfred Robens, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel, in* a speech at Oxford. * *
If the fuel target was not reached this year, damage to the export drive would be vei T serious.
The export of 100 tons of coal brought enough foreign exchange to buy 12,300 gallons of petrol or 1,000,000 cigarettes from the United States. An improvement of only one p- - cent in give BrufA j an inlk ase of 2,000,000 tons jsf 'coal a year.
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Northern Advocate, 24 August 1948, Page 4
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