Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...western coal operators sat calmly at negotiating tables in West Virginia, apparently willing to wait indefinitely for Lewis to name his terms for a new contract. Lewis had cut output with his "memorial" and "stabilizing" stoppages and the three-day work week; yet he had let his miners dig enough coal to keep them in business...
Slowly the diggers are piecing together a picture of what America was like in its earliest history. But the more they dig, the more complex the picture seems to look. Once the experts thought that the Basketmakers of the Southwest were the first U.S. inhabitants. But apparently the country was already full of crude, prowling citizens soon after the glaciers melted (about...
...Cadillacs. Even before he became a $12,500-a-year Congressman, Leonard Irving had been living pretty well for a $125-a-week boss of Local 264 - each of whose 1,800 members had paid a $59 initiation fee for the right to dig a ditch or hoist a hod. His campaign for nomination (which President Truman did not support) had been expensive. In Washington, he rented an eleven-room house on fashionable Marlboro Pike, sported two Cadillacs, and dressed like a Texas banker...
Many of the finest things that archeologists dig up were once junk thrown away by the owners. Recently unearthed was a beautiful Greek relief of an Ethiopian slave and a horse saddled with a panther skin (see cut). Carved about 125 B.C., it would probably have been destroyed long ago by weathering if it had stayed in its original place. But when Greek civilization degenerated into barbarism, the two marble slabs were used as secondhand building stones to line a rough, crude tomb in the suburbs of Athens. This insult to the carving saved it. When Greek archeologists dug them...
Newsmen finally did, however, dig out something of what went on-and printed it. The fact seemed to be that Britain, which had been in at the start but not at the finish of atom-bomb making, had at last just about solved the knack of making them. That fact, if it were a fact, had enormous consequences. For one thing, if the U.S. no longer had an atomic monopoly, it would no longer have sole say in what to do about the atom...