Word: diggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Larsen was at New York's American Museum of Natural History, gloating over the take of an airborne summer "dig." He had been in Alaska trying to determine the extent of the Ipiutak (ancient Eskimo) culture that flourished there 2,000 years ago. The forgotten culture, apparently, had more connection with Asia than with North America. Its elaborate tools and art objects look Siberian or Chinese...
...Veritas Productions is adamant, the College group must dig up a new title...
...aimed at supplanting the Greater New York C.I.O. Council. No one doubted that there would be many more such skirmishes before the battle was over. In the early days of the C.I.O., the Communists had been eagerly welcomed into U.S. unions. Now, unless they were uprooted bodily, they would dig in deeper & deeper...
...Benedict Arnold sent his soldiers to dig iron for cannon in New York's Adirondack Mountains. There was iron there, but in the westward sweep of U.S. industry big steelmen passed the Adirondacks by. The country was too wild, its roads too few and its scant settlements too short of labor, they agreed, to make Adirondack mining...
Other steel companies have followed Republic's lead. All told, mining companies have spent more than $40 million to develop Adirondack mines. Adirondack ores are costlier to dig, but have a richer iron content than those from Minnesota's famed Mesabi range, which still supplies the U.S. with 83% of all its iron. Steelmen, who know that Mesabi has only ten years of high-grade ore production left, think New York's old iron mining country is finally coming into...