Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mine owners were not unsympathetic, but pointed out that, as their industry is to a great extent run on borrowed capital and therefore has high interest charges to meet, they cannot afford to increase the level of wages, despite the fact that the total sum involved for the entire industry is something less than $100,000, unless they raise the cost to the consumer, and this the government, which controls mining, will not let them...
...American Federation of Labor's annual convention (TIME, Oct. 17) went into its second & last week at Los Angeles, there went into effect at Pittsburgh one of the most drastic injunctions ever issued by a U. S. Court against a labor union. Schoonmaker Injunction. United Mine Workers employed by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp. went on strike last April. Pending peace they did not change their domiciles which were, for the most part, houses owned by the Terminal Coal Co. When they sytruck, the company told them to move out, presumably wanting its houses for occupancy by non-union...
...Picture a gorge some 3000 feet deep with a trail blown out of its perpendicular cliffs and right through 25 spurs which were too difficult to circumvent, where a single miss-step means death. That is the sort of approach to the silver mine which I visited during the past summer," said Professor D. H. McLaughlin in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday morning...
Professor McLaughlin went to Mexico last summer as geologist for a corporation which owns a rich silver mine on the Mess Central, a huge table and near the border of Durango and Sinalon, two native states on the West Coast...
...Mesa Centrala is riddled with these tremendous gorges. The change in climate as you descend is remarkable. The mine was up on the rim in a forest of pine trees; but down below where the ore was carried by an aerial tramway, the jungle was full of parrots and monkeys...