Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refer to the undersigned or any other labor executive as a union boss," wrote Union Boss Lewis, "is a sneer. In logic, it would be equally sound to refer to a public official as the boss of the citizens ... To refer to the public trustee of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund [onetime Coal Mine Operator Josephine Roche], of eminent record, as a stooge of the undersigned is a contemptible insult, derogatory to the writer of your editorial. It exemplifies the innate philosophy of the Bourbon mind and the effeminate snobbishness of inbred aristocracy...
...Queen or the royal couple together. They rode in jeeps, crossed mountains on muleback, slept on dirt floors and ate with the peasants. No fighting front was too hot to keep them away. Once with Paul at the wheel, the royal jeep took a short cut through a mined road. The Queen picked up her husband's baton of rank, and. waving it over his head in a burst of feminine illogic, vowed to bash his head in if he dared hit so much as a single mine...
...gentleman friend of mine who works for your paper, hasn't been around to see me much lately. Each time I track him down, his sleepy eyes and unshaven jewls tell me better than any words could that he just isn't taking care of himself. He keeps saying that he's in some sort of back-biting contest . . . . he calls it EXECCOMP, which I suppose is a letter abbreviation like UNRRA or CIO or something...
Much of the foreign competition was spurred by the U.S. Government itself, which gave long-term contracts to producers abroad to insure a big enough supply for the Korean war.and the rearmament program. As foreign mines stepped up production and defense demands tapered, prices started down. Lead has dropped from 19½? a Ib. in the spring of 1952 to 13½?; zinc has fallen even more sharply, from 19½? t010?. At current low prices, U.S. mines simply cannot compete with foreign producers. Up to 70% of U.S. mine costs are in labor, at an average...
Next month, the U.S. Tariff Commission will hold hearings to see what can be done about the slump. Most of the mine owners want a higher tariff. They argue that lead and zinc mining are essential to U.S. defense, that in time of war foreign supplies might be cut off. But that is not a strong argument, since more than 75% of zinc and 50% of lead imports come from Canada and Mexico. In any case, the Tariff Commission can only boost the tariff by about a cent a Ib.; what the miners want is a sliding scale that would...