Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cordial day-to-day relations over a long period is a dichotomy that translates out something like this: All "Big Business" is bad except the particular "Big Business" we happen to deal with. Coal producers have been at such pains to be on friendly terms with the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis that their principal concern in selecting a bargaining representative was to find a man of whom Lewis would approve. This represents the ultimate extension of the historic principle of the Wagner Act that workers have a right to be represented in collective bargaining by unions...
Indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver last week: 14 officials and staff members of the Communist-dominated International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. They were charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. by obtaining the services of the National Labor Relations Board without lawfully qualifying the union for those services, i.e., some had "pretended" to resign from the Communist Party and had filed false non-Communist affidavits with the NLRB. Among the indicted: "Mine-Mill's'' eye-patched onetime President Maurice E. Travis. 46. already under an eight-year federal sentence (and free...
...grey-haired, Polish-born, Sorbonne-educated American known affectionately almost everywhere as "Shim" (after his real name, Chimin), and as celebrated for his gentleness and ensibility as Roy for his daring. Violence lad shadowed Shim's life: the Nazis destroyed his family in Poland, and a Communist land mine in Indo-China killed his best friend, famed War Photographer Robert Capa, with whom Shim and France's Henri Cartier-Bresson founded he picture agency Magnum Photos Inc. Yet Shim, who replaced Capa as president of Magnum, was no combat specialist; lis most memorable pictures, collected in the UNESCO...
...name was Manuel. Marcelino could not take his eyes off her. At last he said wonderingly. "You're very beautiful." After that Marcelino was some times strangely silent. One day he asked Brother Cookie. "Does everybody have a mother?" "Of course." "Even the Father Superior?" "Yes." "Where is mine?" "In Heaven." "Was she beautiful?" There was a pause; then Brother Cookie looked straight into the boy's eyes and said simply, "She was very beautiful." Marcelino ran out to play...
AMERICAN COAL SHIPPING Inc., the export combine of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, seven mine operators and three coal-hauling railroads (TIME, Oct. 15) will buy control of Bull Lines's 15-ship fleet for $45 to $50 million. Pending approval by Federal Maritime Board, shipping company will use eleven Bull C-2 dry-cargo carriers to ship coal to Europe, perhaps South America and Japan...