Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Secretary of Labor, Wilson named William B. Wilson (no kin), who had been secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers. Warren Harding appointed James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, who had been president of an Iron, Steel & Tin Workers local. Herbert Hoover named William N. Doak, who had been vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Franklin Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins, and Harry Truman chose Lewis Schwelenbach and Maurice Tobin...
Education and occupation make a considerable difference. Nationalization has less appeal for those who went to college than for those who did not. Percentages favoring coal-mine nationalization: college, 10%; high school, 13%; grade school, 20%. White-collar workers favor Government ownership less than farmers do; farmers less than manual workers...
...bulletin board at northern Idaho's 69-year-old Morning Mine, one of the biggest U.S. lead and zinc producers, appeared a mournful notice: "Due to increased costs of labor and supplies, diminishing ore reserves and low metal prices, the Morning Mine will be closed permanently...
...house when he was 19, went broke and lost $1,000,000 in the 1929 crash, made a fast comeback buying blocks of stock at bargain prices. Currently, he controls 13 companies, worth some $450 million, including Arma Corp. (electronics, navigational equipment), American Bosch (automotive electric equipment), a gold mine in the Philippines, and real estate interests from North Kansas City to Riverside, Calif...
...heroine of this book is afflicted with a common ailment: growing up. Her ailment is aggravated by a special complication : South Africa and the drab gold-mining town from which she comes. The pains of adolescence are intensified by "the slow corrosive guilt...which, admitted or denied, is in all white South Africans," and by the fact that while the mine yields gold, the town offers only shale. Groping toward maturity, Helen Shaw supplies her own clinical study of her troubles in the first person singular...