Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the black slag heaps and airborne soot of the Franco-Belgian borderland lie coal mines that plunge deep-2,000, 2,500, 3,000 ft.-into the bowels of the earth, using obsolete equipment and backbreaking labor to eke out small hauls from old veins. Close by the small town of Marcinelle is the mine called Amercoeur, the "Bitter Heart." There one morning last week, 302 miners-115 of them Belgians, 139 Italians-dropped 3,105 ft. underground in their steel-cage elevators to their daily jobs at the coal face. Above ground the miners' families, mostly poor...
...radios on heard a chilling announcement cut into the Belgian broadcasting system's light-music program: there was trouble at the Bitter Heart, and fire engines, asbestos suits, fire extinguishers were needed. Outside, a 300-ft. plume of bilious-looking yellow smoke was already rising languidly above the mine shaft...
...Which last February refused to grant any more miners' exit permits for Belgium on the ground that mine security there was inadequate...
...reigned once again this week over West Berlin's Dahlem Museum. Nefertete ("The Beautiful One Has Come") is the museum's most popular treasure, along with Rembrandt s Man with a Golden Helmet, and she has been away a long time. Cached for safekeeping in a salt mine during World War II, she was found by U.S. troops and warehoused in Wiesbaden. Not until this summer was Nefertete wrapped in tissue paper, put in a nest of boxes filled with ground cork and gingerly brought back to her air-conditioned glass case m the museum...
Time to Retire. In Bingham, Utah, workers were threatened with "some disciplinary action" after they lost control of a 1,800-lb. road-grader tire they were rolling to amuse themselves during lunch hour, saw it careen down a mile-deep copper mine and vanish into a roadway, where it rolled to a town three-quarters of a mile away, bounced 30 ft. in the air, ripped open the second floor of a house...