Air cargo the area surrounding the city and thus land access. As this access was closed, in the so-called Berlin blockade, an airlift remained the only option to get increasingly urgent deliveries of food, coal, and other supplies to West Berlin. Over 330 days to 12 May 1949 a total of 2.26 million tons of cargo were airlifted to Berlin, an average of 6,800 tons a day, 80% by the US and 20% by the UK. Although freight traffic developed modestly, reaching only 800,000 tonnes worldwide by the mid-1950s, the world economy was hitting its post-war stride. Germany and Japan were emerging
1 Maja Coal Mine production was around 8,400 tons per day. Coal Mine 1 May was the general sponsor of the Polish football team Odra Wodzisław Śląski. 1 Maja Coal Mine The 1 Maja coal mine ("Coal Mine 1st May"; pol. "Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego 1 Maja") was a large mine in the south of Poland in Wodzisław Śląski, Silesian Voivodeship, 260 km south-west of the capital, Warsaw. Built in 1960, it was called "Mszana". Since 1961 it was called 1 Maja (1 May), in honor o fInternational Workers' Day. It was one of the most modern and best coal mines in the Polish People's