Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left high school in his junior year back in 1946 to join the regular Army. He spent three dull years at Stateside Army posts, came back to Crooksville, went to work in the Misco mine, and acted as though he had settled down for life. Then, in February 1951, his younger brother Dick was killed in Korea. Ronald told his father-a mine boss who has not missed a day's work in 20 years-and his 13 brothers and sisters: "I'm going to get even for what they did to Dick...
...lives of men around him-Ronald Rosser received the Congressional Medal of Honor. His father, his mother, his wife (he was married six days before going overseas), and 19 other relatives stood on the White House lawn to watch President Truman hang the medal around his neck-the Misco mine and its employees chipped in to hire a bus for the family's trip to Washington. But, though bursting with pride, Crooksville was still a little incredulous...
...rush began last summer, after a visiting mining engineer took his wife down to look over the Free Enterprise Mine, near Boulder. She had such a severe case of bursitis that she could not lift her arm. But two days after the half-hour trip down the mine, she felt better and proclaimed herself "cured." Her husband figured that radiation from uranium ores was responsible. Soon they were back, with a friend who suffered from arthritis. After an hour at the mine's 85-ft. level, she too felt better...
...have misspelled the word, which is radiculitis, but I think your spelling is just as good because I don't take much stock in there being any such thing as radiculitis" (inflammation of nerve roots in the spine). From a column devoted to dermatology: "A good friend of mine who knows as much about skin diseases as anyone in these parts says that nobody knows much about skin diseases...
...that Williamson's increase in production to an estimated $24 million a year (12% of all diamond sales) would be a real threat, the cartelists thought it time to get the lone wolf back into the pack. Another rumored reason: the cartel had been pouring capital into gold mines, and might well have been short of cash to support the diamond market in a price break. Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's son Harry flew to Williamson's mine in Tanganyika to lure him back. But Williamson, a diamond-hard bargainer, could not be cracked. So tough...