Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people of the Moscow area number more than 8,000,000. They constitute an unprecedented labor army, which can be, and has been, rushed to every threatened sector, there to construct cement fortlets, dig bunkers, repair breaches and sow mines as prodigally as wheat...
...Treasury's Procurement Division (buying for Lend-Lease) announced the signing of OPA-and OPM-approved contracts with three small high-cost Michigan mines (Quincy, Isle Royale, Copper Range) for all the copper they could dig-perhaps 20,000 tons a year. The deal: the mines were to get it above their "out-of-pocket" mine costs, about 15? or 16? (depending on the producer). The U.S. will still release the copper to fabricators at 12?, absorb the difference. Similar offers will doubtless soon be made to other high-cost mines (like Miami Copper's low-grade Castle...
...committee has held up the bill for so long is a mystery to everyone, including the highly-paid Washington correspondents whose favorite pastime has always been to dig up some information about "mysterious" goings-on in the Capitol. No sound reason seems to exist for any further delay; it would mean only a more pressing threat of inflation and a graver danger to the high standard of living which has for so long been this country's pride...
Wells: "Germany now enters upon a new phase in her final war. She will, I guess, try to dig in on the Russian front. Will the Russians...
...drilling. In California, where petroleum signs are more complex, scientists must identify about 100 types of fossils in each sample, and analysis is far slower. All told, some 500 fossil experts are hired by Gulf Coast and California oil producers to divine the meaning of the "pebbles" they dig...