Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theatrical gesture' ... to suggest a safe way to end the deadly competition to build and explode H-bombs." Of the President's press conference statement that he had said his "last word" on the subject, Stevenson snapped: "Well, I haven't said mine, and neither . . . have the people of this country, who have the only last word...
...Party Conference at seaside Blackpool when a teller recited the vote that made Bevan party treasurer (by a margin of 274,000 over Candidate George E. Brown). The truth was that the cheers were more for a party decision than for ruddy, white-thatched Nye Bevan himself. Said a Mine Union leader: "We thought he'd be better cornered in office than left wild outside." Sighed a delegate: "Phew, unity at last...
Before 3,000 convention delegates last week, the United Mine Workers' Chief John L. Lewis angrily laid down the law on wildcat strikes in the coal industry. Rumbled Lewis, citing 170 local walkouts from January through April this year: "Carry this message back to your members : don't do it again. The time has gone when half a dozen men can decide not to work." Mine Boss Lewis had good reason to want peace. He had just negotiated another one-year contract with Edward Fox, representing the bituminous coal operators, for a pay increase that would keep Lewis...
UNION SALARIES for top executives are shooting up. United Steelworkers voted $10,000 boosts to President David J. McDonald and his two top aides, bringing McDonald's salary to $50,000 annually (same level as United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis and Teamsters' Dave Beck), those of his ranking aides to $35,000 annually...
...Humble Oil & Refining Co. while drilling for oil under 45 ft. of water* six miles off the Louisiana coast. The two companies will split evenly the after-tax profits from production, which is due to start in 1960. But Freeport must first spend about $30 million in mining equipment and port facilities. To pay off its investment in Grand Isle Block 18, Freeport must mine 500,000 to 600,000 tons there every year-almost one-tenth of the total U.S. sulphur production of 6.9 million tons...