Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chafing to get put. Then about one mile of light cruisers; then the submarines- almost a hundred of them-with their vanguard creeping midget-like through the yawning Gaillard Cut;* then another five miles of 106 pert destroyers impatient for the open sea; finally the submarine chasers, the mine sweepers, the airplane carriers, the colliers, the oilers, the cargo ships, and the last hospital ship struggling in the Gatun Locks. And up above 234 airplanes would frolic around the Los Angeles. Undoubtedly Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett would be on board the dirigible, would look down upon the 40-mile...
...blades, which are towed by armored cable from ships for defense. By adjustment of their rudders, paravanes can be made to travel beside the ship at any desired depth and distance, the cable fanning out across the ship's bows. Upon encountering the anchor chain of a submerged mine or the hull of a submarine, the cable draws the paravane into contact. When the mine's anchor chain is severed, the submarine is blown...
...American Legation at Peking last summer arranged to buy its winter supply of coal from a mine about 20 miles from Peking. The railroad was under the control of Wu Pei-fu, the then dominant war lord. His underlings demanded a 'squeeze' of $2 per ton for the use of cars to move the coal...
...domestic fear of a strike. Because of this nervous demand employers of non-union miners are finding some trouble in getting sufficient labor. Thus last week the open shop Pittsburgh Coal Co., a Mellon family holding company, offered increased wages. Higher wage scales were posted at many another mine...
...anyway: but even the students may benefit from it by witnessing the best modern representation of a Roman holiday. It is for the aid of the members of the latter group that I shall say a few words about my personal plans that they may model their conduct after mine...