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Word: mine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Checker cabs returned to the Square in full force this morning for the first time in five days. The strike, which was due to the firing of three drivers by the Checker company, also served as a test to determine whether the American Federation of Labor, or the United Mine Workers should represent the cabbies in disputes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Checker Cabs Return After Five-Day Strike | 1/26/1952 | See Source »

...local strike by the United Mine Workers District 50 against the Checker Cab Company over the firing of three drivers Monday remained unsettled yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mine Workers Still Striking Over Cabs | 1/24/1952 | See Source »

...Belgium, after watching miners struggling to push loaded coal cars over an uneven tunnel floor, a West Virginia mining engineer named Neil Robinson offered to slash production costs from $14 to $11 a ton-if given a free hand. The skeptical Belgians agreed; Robinson has since set to work injecting U.S. zest and know-how into one of Belgium's oldest and deepest pits-the Good Hope Mine. If he succeeds, and the chances are that he will, MSA hopes to use the "Robinson Experiment" to spark similar coalface production drives throughout Western Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Coal Is the Tyrant | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...simply, she asked if I would look at pictures of her in the many ways she'd worn it." Big photographs were spread on the floor. Fleur looked them all over and pronounced Evita's latest hairdo her best. "Evita asked my age. When I told her mine [41], I asked about hers. She said 28." About six or eight years shy, Fleur thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Not a Woman's Woman | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...Michigan mine operator, Carlson is a first-rate geologist who has taught at the University of Michigan, knows Eskimo, and is a veteran of two major expeditions to Greenland. In 1937 he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota, served as professor and director of admissions until World War II called him to Washington. Finally, after three years as a top consultant on Arctic affairs, ex-Colonel Carlson was ready for a presidency-first at the University of Delaware, then at Vermont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: SUNY's Second | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

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