Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know about Springhill is what I read in the papers. Even without the services of a municipal press agent, Springhill has scored with an impressive number of headlines in the last two years. Back in November, 1956, about 127 men with black faces were working in Mine No. 4 of the Dominion Steel and Coal Company when they heard and felt an explosion. The result did not become clear until two days later when all precincts were heard from and 39 men were counted dead. The newspapermen on hand for the occasion were figuring on an even higher total...
...Would you come running up the stairs late, Mr. Hunter," a Globe photographer said, "wiping your head with your handkerchief? Oh, you don't have a handkerchief. Here, use mine. Now running up smiling and looking late please. That's fine. Now would you do it again, please. Just in case the pic doesn't turn...
...sent to a hospital over there. Nearly got the flu. Most of us did. They had me in a bed by a window. I could see them building pine boxes outside. Rows of boxes waiting for us." He smiles. "I used to wonder whether the carpenter was building mine while I watched...
Mindful of the U.S. Tariff Commission's recommendations for boosting tariffs, foreign nations regarded quotas as much the lesser evil. They were fully aware that U.S. mine production has fallen while imports have climbed (see chart). Canadian politicians railed at the ruling, but Canadian miners were more subdued. "It's easier to get rid of a quota than a tariff," said V. C. Wansbrough, vice president of the Canadian Metal Mining Association...
...Advocate's cover looks like the cover of a high school geometry book, and The Advocate has seen fit to continue its policy of filling space with book reviews. I'll leave the review of the reviews to more trapezoidal minds than mine...