Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Declaiming last week before a Senate hearing on mine safety, John L. Lewis dealt with the killing and maiming of his United Mine Workers in such disasters as the recent underground explosion at West Frankfort (Ill.), where 119 men lost their lives,† The shaggy eyebrows quivered with scorn, the spellbinding voice rolled out pedantic invective (a certain mine operator, he rumbled, was "retromingent"), as the U.M.W.'s president got to his main point: "the abominable and barbaric Taft-Hartley Law." Until Congress repealed it, said Lewis, the U.M.W. would be hampered in its efforts to make the mines...
...born encased in velvet pants, and has lived to rivet an iron collar around the necks of millions of Americans.") But the Senator popped up next day, just back from electioneering in Florida, to tangle with the waiting Lewis. Taft said that he was all for a federal mine safety law, but mine safety had nothing to do with the Taft-Hartley Act: "Mr. Lewis' statement is entirely irrelevant . . . entirely untrue ... a complete red herring...
...exchange over, the Senator walked around for a handshake with the Mine Workers' great ham. Lewis chatted with Taft as if nothing had happened-and nothing had, except that John L. had given his Schimpflexikon an airing...
Even in the dead of winter, when temperatures drop 50° below zero, the search for oil continues on the Canadian prairies. Winter has actually speeded development in Northern Manitoba; a whole town is being moved overland by tractors and sleighs to the isolated site of a new nickel mine. Another town, Uranium City, is springing up in the far north of Saskatchewan near the shaft of a new uranium mine that will be the biggest in North America, and may be the richest in the world when it goes into production late this year. Meanwhile, Canada...
Uranium for Bombs. From the outset, Canada was a close partner with the U.S. in the atomic-bomb program. Howe took over the subArctic Eldorado mine and stepped up its output to provide uranium for the first bombs. His production skill and quick thinking won him high regard in Washington, even though he was a notably tough bargainer for Canada. "What a quarterback C. D. Howe would have made," said F.D.R. "If one play fails, he always has another one up his sleeve...