Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, and rejected the Government plan, though leaving open the way to future negotiation. Both miners and operators opposed fiercely the Government proposal to place the adjustment of wages in the hands of a board whose neutral chairman would have a casting vote over the equal representatives of mine capital and miner labor...
...Upon a recent visit to a very dear friend of mine in New York City (a Harvard graduate), I read your little booklet, 'The Harvard Fund...
...certain that mine will not be the only letter you receive in correction of the awkward blunder in TIME of May 10 [EDUCATION], when you state that H. R. H. the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden comes to America to be present at the unveiling of a monument to Leif Ericsson, the early discoverer of America...
...head of the stretch, their sleeves flashing, their caps bobbing, ten millionaires watched their maneuvers with an intimate and peculiar interest. They were the owners- all rich then, but nine of them due to be poorer in a few minutes. There were W. R. Coe, Standard oil mines; Colonel Bradley, who once owned the Del Prado hotel in Chicago and whose racing stable, the Idle Hour Farm, has derived many benefits from a clothing store he formerly conducted on Madison Street, near Clark; J. E. Griffith, owner of Canter and of some profitable phosphate beds; W. J. Salmon, shrewd Manhattan...
These dwarfs and gnomes were the primitive Saxon miners of copper, lead, silver and nickelite (nickel arsenide) from mines which have been yielding their wealth for centuries. For 725 years, since the beginning of the 13th Century, a mine has been operated by the same company - the Mansfeld Mining and Smelting Co. - in Prussian-Saxony, northwest of Leipzig...