Word: mine
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...over a long sought new mine safety code...
When the White House nominated Utah Geologist Tom Lyon to be director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, trouble rumbled right behind the announcement. United Mine Workers Boss John L. Lewis opposed Lyon because he had no coal-mining experience, and 88% of U.S. miners are coal miners. But no one was prepared for the explosion that blew the nomination to bits last week...
Then Lyon volunteered some damaging opinion to top the damaging facts. He was solidly against the new federal mine safety regulations passed by Congress last year-a law he would have to administer. He believed that the bureau, which has 270 mine inspectors, would need several thousand to enforce the new law. The law was "just that much more federal control" of the mining industry; individual states should have chief responsibility for mine safety; the Bureau of Mines "was never meant to be a policeman." Besides, said Lyon, 99% of mine accidents are caused by miners themselves. Mining companies take...
Within 24 hours, Utah's Republican Senator Arthur V. Watkins, Lyon's sponsor, withdrew his support. Then Lyon himself, realizing that the committee would not confirm him, withdrew his name. Director John J. Forbes, a coal mine safety specialist who has worked in the bureau 38 years, will stay on until someone else is appointed. The main responsibility for proposing so vulnerable a nominee as Lyon rested on one man: Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay, who had insisted that Lyon...
Freedom from the Mine. There is no danger, says Rosin, that man will ever run out of mineral necessities. Along with freedom from the plant will come "freedom from the mine." Most scarce elements-e.g., tin-can be replaced by substitutes. What's more, almost any element can be recovered from the "dilute abundance" that covers the earth. Sea water, for instance, contains every element on the list. It is already supplying bromine and magnesium; it could supply many more...