Word: dig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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hard, it could dig up at least one female...
...through one of the harshest winters the coalfields had ever known--Carter stumbled to action only ten days ago. His order of a Taft-Hartley injunction only angered and bewildered the UMWA, leaving many miners muttering John L. Lewis's 1943 offer in a similar situation: "Let them dig coal with bayonets." Tacitly disregarded by the UMWA, perhaps more than anything else the injunction strengthened the resolve of the membership to stay out until the strike was won. The federal judge who refused to sign the order last week is to be applauded; in a turnabout, miners hampered...
What a sight--and what an opportunity. I was all ready to find our steps buried under the snow. With the great expectations characteristic of an ardent archeologist of ancient sites, I came tooled and ready for a dig...
...Very early we established that whatever we did, we wanted production to resume. That meant we had to be fair to get cooperation from both labor and management. One possibility that became clear was that the workers might go back to the mines, but they wouldn't dig much coal. That's not going to help anybody. Nor is it going to help anybody to have management mad at us and not do a good job of managing. If either side decided to show that the Government couldn't do the job, it wouldn...
...weak dollar also threatens a flight of capital from the U.S., just when America needs more investment to create jobs, dig for oil and develop all those costly alternative sources of energy. Sure, Europeans and Japanese and Latin Americans have been putting much of their surplus cash into land and factories in the U.S., which they figure is immune to the socialism that infects many of their own countries. But they would invest much more-particularly in the U.S. stock market, which is undervalued and could use the lift from abroad-if the dollar showed signs of recovery. So long...