Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frank E. McKinney, 52, Indianapolis banker, Harry Truman's hand-picked choice as Democratic National Chairman until he was ousted by the Stevensonites in 1952. He is convinced that Adlai is far from the popular choice, that the U.S. is a gold mine of unpanned Harriman strength, and he will be with Harriman until the bitter end. His battle cry to Harriman agents: "Don't sit back and let nature take its course; there is work to be done...
Outside the mining town of Beckley, W. Va. one afternoon last week, the deep-throated voice of John L. Lewis rumbled over the heads of 5,000 listeners and bounced sonorously back from the green mountainsides. In a chill drizzle, the United Mine Workers' boss warmly hailed a "new era of peace" that had brought forth one of the most impressive social landmarks in U.S. industry: a chain of ten hospitals in three states, built and operated by the U.M.W.'s welfare and retirement fund. As Lewis dedicated the chain to "those who suffered and died before...
Though the U.M.W. welfare and pension fund was set up ten years ago and has cost the industry close to $1 billion, a series of strikes and squabbles delayed its effective operation until 1950. Since 1946, the mine operators have upped their contribution from 5? to 40? a ton. They have also accepted responsibility for the monumental task of bringing modern medicine to the industry with the second-highest accident rate (after logging) in the U.S. Unlike many unions, the U.M.W. has run the program so efficiently that a Senate subcommittee investigating union welfare funds last April called it "honestly...
Clyde E. Weed, 65, was elected president of Anaconda Co., succeeding Robert Emmett Dwyer, 70, who is retiring after 53 years with the company. Weed, the company's mining boss since 1938, will be the first engineer in 41 years to head Anaconda, the world's biggest copper mining concern and No. 1 U.S. manganese producer. A graduate of the Michigan State College of Mining and Technology, Weed started at the bottom of a mine as a pick-and-shovel hand in 1911, later managed copper properties throughout Michigan, Arizona and Mexico. In 1935 he was named president...
...Germans blur in this cartoon of death. The sense of death-in-life is all the stronger for the author's calculated casualty-report style; the loss of a barrel of a machine gun has the same weight as the death of a crazed corporal who tries to mine a flame-throwing tank, and whose head "burned like a match." In the book's most telling episode, a captain goes mad when he is compelled to execute as a deserter a stunned and muddled laggard sergeant major who is trying to get back to his unit. Author Ledig...