Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford last week bought for a reputed price of $10,000 the 200-acre Vaucluse gold mine in Orange County, Va., never profitably worked since pre-Civil War days...
West Virginia Coal Fields, where U. S. court orders bar organizers of the United Mine Workers of America...
Last week the Welsh Royal National Eisteddfod was held amid the bowers of Sefton Park in smoky Liverpool, most populous with Welshmen (75,000) of any city save London. From all over the world went humming Welshmen, chiefly of course from the mine-scarred valleys of Wales. There were more than 500 from the U. S., including the famed Anthracite Choral Society of 172 mixed voices from Scranton, Pa. Two girls went all the way from California with their grandmother, aged 74. Others journeyed from Australia. They were welcomed by their most distinguished countryman, David Lloyd George. Then rose...
...claimed direct descent from Sequoyah, Cherokee Indian Chief credited with invention of the Cherokee alphabet. In 1914 she, 23, married Croker, 73. They lived in Iceland. She said to reporters: "It is the dearest ambition of every Indian girl to win a chief . . . I have won the chief of mine...
Foujita cried in her presence: "Oh, Yourki? She's learning how to wear a Japanese costume and how to bow. Never shall I be able to rid myself of that wife of mine there, I guess...