Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...materials contained in the Paley Report (TIME, June 30, 1952), none were more pessimistic than the facts about U.S. nickel supplies: U.S. production was almost nil, yet U.S. nickel requirements would be doubled by 1975. Last week brighter news about the U.S. nickel outlook came from Canada. Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd. began development of a new mine in northern Ontario on an estimated lode of 10 million tons of rich copper-nickel ore. A nine-year U.S. Government contract insures that practically all the mine's output will...
...more life. There is some funny pantomime, notably of the producer and two of his associates wolfing their first square meal in days. But there is never the faintest approach to pandemonium; and though the third act is not, like the first, a fiasco, it is run-of-the-mine entertainment...
...becomes Zorba's boss and foil, is a 35-year-old scholar, tired, bookworm-eaten, a 20th century Hamlet. Sensing that he ought to get away from his study for a while, he eases off on his definitive life of Buddha and tries to run a lignite mine. Zorba, the would-be cook, becomes his chief engineer. And through Zorba, the scholar learns to see the world fresh each...
Underscoring this ribald warmth is Eddie's serious interest in Lowell, and in his own education. Kelleher has called him a "mine of information on the Irish in America and a self educated man whose intelligence has made him shun the worst Irish day-of-the-morning elements." He sprinkles his speech with quotes of everything from Hamlet to Abou Ben Adhem, while his command of five languages (his German is "not very good--just a reading knowledge") have made him a "discovery" for each new class of Lowell men. Snatching time from his work and his reading, Eddie...
...extent that any language of mine in the Kansas article may have created any misunderstanding about my ideas, this letter will, I hope, correct it." Arthur E. Sutherland Professor...