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Show SPEED OUTPUT I OF soft com I Operators Hnoe to Make Up Nation's Deficiency by mm December 1 Kk WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. To fore-stall fore-stall the possibility of 8 Mtununoue . H coal Shortage anywhere in the coun-try coun-try this winter coal operators are bend- I H ' Ing every effort to attain a wcekl r H output of over 1 2.000.000 tons of soft , fH coal from now to L'ecember first, said ' 1 a statement Sunday by the National Coal association. ' Deficiency in car supply at the mines M had hindered this rate of production during the summer, the association de-clarea, de-clarea, but assurances have been had from the railroad executives that they H will live up to the requirements put , upon them. With production running H at over 12.000.000 tons a week the op- H ' eratnrs ealculuatc that the existing de- H flcleno due to under-production can be made up soon alter December 1- - .Movement of open top cars for the transportation of coal to the north- iH i Tidcr th' orders of the Interstate commerce comm's.'.lon will be expedit- H ed by the railroads, the association mM said, to Insure a winter supply of coal H for that section. Production of soft coal during the rH week ended September 18. reached 11. CI 4.000 tons, according to a report Is- WM sued by the United States Geological mM Survey. It Is estimated by the nur- WM vcy that production for 1920 Is 51 mil-I mil-I lion tons ahead of last year. Production of anthracite coal to mM Si ptember IS. was announced as near-I near-I ly Co. 000, 000 tons, a slight Increase lover the same period In 1919. oo H The language of Corlc i Napoleon's Is ehlefly Italian. |