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...Wales, Coal Miner Edward Green-slade had set a record by cutting 145 tons of coal at the rate of 25 tons a shift, only to be beaten by Miner Edward Maybank, who cut an average of 25¾ tons a shift. The individual efforts of many another miner had swelled Britain's weekly coal production to 4,298,700 tons, the highest since August 1940. (Low point: 1,587,700 tons in August 1943). The mine modernization program was still too young to show big results, but it promised even higher production figures for the future. In Lancashire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Talking Success | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Overton growled: "The Senator from Ohio [Taft] is not yet the whole Senate, no matter what he may think about it." South Carolina's Burnet Maybank shouted hoarsely: "After all, Mississippi is a sovereign state." After all, Bilbo was Mississippi's choice. Bilbo slouched at his old desk, clutching his cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: That Man | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...scribes fired questions and photo bulbs flashed, Miss Maybank agreed to comment on "anything but the atomic bomb." Pursuing Senator Bilbo further, she said in her sweet southern drawl, "He always wears a flower in his buttonhole," but qualified her remarks somewhat by adding, "Of course, I've only seen him when he was about to sit down to a steak dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deep South Finds Voice in Yankee Domain as 'Cliffegirl Backs Bilbo | 7/30/1946 | See Source »

When someone mentioned the problem of refugees streaming across the Georgia border into South Carolina as a result of the recent election of "Modest Gene" Talmadge, Miss Maybank opined that "anyone who can get elected with all that opposition must have something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deep South Finds Voice in Yankee Domain as 'Cliffegirl Backs Bilbo | 7/30/1946 | See Source »

With the words, "I refuse to comment further on politics because I don't want to get my father defeated in the next election," Miss Maybank brought the interview closer to Harvard Square. A Government major, she is faced with the dismal prospect of having slept through the Gov 9 exam, but thinks "the instructor is very cute." As for Gov I, she allowed. "I just love Professor Elliott,--Yandell, that is. I think he's wonderful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deep South Finds Voice in Yankee Domain as 'Cliffegirl Backs Bilbo | 7/30/1946 | See Source »

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