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Word: aboveground (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Almost roof-high and room-long in the Mines, Metals and Machinery Building stretches Treasure Mountain, showing open-pit mine operations aboveground, gold and copper mining along 500 feet of underground passageways. Good also: U. S. Steel's diorama of a steel-built San Francisco of 1999; a 555-lb. piano hanging from a thin steel thread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Not So Golden Gate | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...reduced service to the point where trains at peak hours carried four instead of the usual three passengers per seat. When all but a few A. F. of L. and non-union mines shut down last week, less than a month's supply for the U. S. remained aboveground, and much of that was hoarded by big users. Madam Secretary squeaked in Washington: "It is a very delicate and difficult situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Humble John | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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