Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers caused a flutter by announcing: "Whenever the representatives of the operators are willing to meet the representatives of the miners in amicable negotiations to work out a contract for from one to five years' continuous operation of the mines, the miners stand now, and have been, prepared to meet them...
Quoth indulgent Swedes, tabloidizing Mr. Nobel for U. S. consumption: "He came of a family of inventors and princes of finance. His father, Immanuel Nobel, invented the submarine mine. His brothers, Robert Hjalmar Nobel and Ludvig Immanuel Nobel, founded the naphtha industry at Baku, Russia, one of the most phenomenally successful enterprises of the 19th Century. He himself invented dynamite, and reaped fabulous tribute from the whole world for the secret. The entire family labored incessantly at the invention and manufacture of super-combustibles. So numerous were the explosions and fires which wrecked their laboratories that the Swedish Government forbade...
...become a mummer of merely carrying first aid to the wretched and miserable left wounded and bleeding on life's battlefield by the inexorableuess of fate. He is to make kings out of beggars and make a grovelling worm look up at the stars and say proudly: "You are mine...
Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, last week called to consult with him John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America, and soon afterwards Major W. W. Inglis, representative of the anthracite mine operators. There was no secret about why he wanted to see them. He wanted to end the anthracite strike which has endured since Sept. 1. What actually passed was indeed secret. Apparently the miners were not willing to give up their demand for higher wages and the checkoff, nor were the operators willing to yield either of these points. When his visitors had gone, Governor...
...eight miles long which he discovered personally last year and intends making into a state park. Some 50 of the 10,000 or more graves have been opened, containing corn, weapons, decorations and dice, dating (by estimate) to 5,000 B. C. Hard by the city is a turquoise mine. Some of the skeletons are gigantic...