Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miners in the deep galleries of Illinois' New Orient Coal Mine No. 2 froze in their tracks, stood staring and listening in the dark. Their ears felt clogged by a sudden compression of air. Wind touched their faces. Some heard a low, distant rumbling and a rattle of doors. That was all. They began to run, heading for the 535-ft. elevator shaft which was their first hope of escape...
...safety of the concrete washhouse, most said only: "This is a bad one." In nearby West Frankfort (pop. 11,251), the news spread fast. In the high-school gymnasium, the loudspeaker broke urgently through the cheers of the basketball fans: "Dr. Barnett, please report to the New Orient mine." Within minutes, the gym was emptying and scores of automobiles were heading past West Frankfort's bright blaze of Christmas lights to Illinois Highway 37 and the turnoff to the mine...
...Finest. "Poncet Davis was and is an intimate friend of mine," said Oliphant. "He is one of the finest men I have ever met. He later told me he had tax difficulties and I disqualified myself. I was being very scrupulous with Mr. Davis. Ultra-scrupulous...
...have a positive policy toward Spain, the standard of living must be raised," he concluded. "Politics is no field of mine, but economics teach us that an underfed worker is a poor worker...
While state officials were trying desperately to find out whom Goldberg was accusing, Cenedella publicly alleged that "a friend of mine in whom I have confidence said that he had paid graft to a high state official." Cenedella said he would appear before the committee the next day and name names. But the state's Attorney General, Francis E. Kelly, was too fast for Cenedella and announced that he was the "high state official...