The Bleak Midwinter, 1947

12th February 23rd January acute April Attlee Attlee's Bevin Boy blizzard Board of Trade Britain British Cabinet Minutes Central Electricity Board coal allocations coal consumption coal deliveries coal industry coal mining coal problem coal production coal stocks coal summer coal supplies coal winter colleagues consumers Cripps cuts Dalton December demand disruption domestic Douglas Jay economic Economist effect electricity supply Emanuel Shinwell employment exports Fuel and Power Fuel Committee fuel crisis gas and electricity gasworks government's greyhound racing household Hugh Dalton increased June labour force London Lord President's Committee March Mass Observation meeting memorandum ment midlands million tons miners Minister of Fuel Ministerial Coal Committee Ministry Monthly Digest months National nationalisation November October official open-cast perhaps position POWE power stations PREM programme railways recruitment reduced Regional reported restrictions seemed serious Shinwell Shinwell's shortage situation snow teleprint transport wartime weather week