Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist-led miners' union appealed for a new investigation. When a government expert sent down to examine the mine turned out to be the same expert the company had hired, the union refused to listen to him. Half an hour later, 200 miners just reaching the end of the second shift in the mine below refused to come to the surface. Communist Santorelli raced to join them. "We will not come up," he shouted, as the shaft elevator descended, "until the company revokes the firings...
...pumps feeding air into the mine cut off. Wine, liquor and cigarettes were removed from the food baskets going down to the strikers. As the air below grew staler, officials from three unions were deep in consultation with the mineowners up above. The unions agreed to accept the government expert's word. The company agreed to suspend all dismissals for a month, to grant severance pay of 200,000 lire ($320) to anyone quitting voluntarily, and to give six days' holiday pay to all the strikers. At week's end, after 40 days in the darkness...
...Bonnard's Self-Portrait, from another Manhattan collector and valued at $25,000, and Gauguin's la Orana Maria, from the Metropolitan Museum. All four had been slashed, and two completely cut from their frames one to two inches from the edges. Shaken museum officials promised that expert restoration would hide the razor marks so no one would ever notice...
...chambers of the Casa de la Lonja. There, head bent low, she still pores over the endless viceroys' reports, ships' logs and diaries. But in all the decades she has been in Seville, her chief target has never changed: today, she is the world's leading expert on Columbus' crew...
...cancer; in Washington, D.C. A colorless public speaker, he was widely respected by both political camps in Washington as an able, intelligent legislator, with a special interest in national defense. His uncompromising opposition to women's suffrage and Prohibition helped unseat him in the Senate, but as an expert on military affairs, he felt that his bitterest defeat was his failure ever to get enactment of universal military training, which he began advocating soon after World...