Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the strike, due to failure (TIME, Aug. 31) to reach a new wage contract, comtinuing for its second month in the nation's anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania, and with no prospect of a settlement there in sight, John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, traveled into West Virginia to start a strike there...
...speech of mine in the British Parliament quoted by Secretary Kellogg has been falsely reported. Mr. Kellogg is deceiving the American public. He claims I would preach sedition in America...
SWEDEN Copper Despatches from Stockholm heralded the discovery at Skelleftea in the North of Sweden of one of the largest copper deposits unearthed in Europe for many years. It was recalled that the Falun mine, Sweden's celebrated copper de posit, has been worked since...
Every day this Strike goes on, more than $1,700,000 in wages will be lost to the mine workers...
...Haldane, popular Cambridge biological litterateur, expressed (in picturesque terms) the well known fact that the strength of an organism is not constant with its bulk. Said he: "A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash . . . Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldly bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal...