Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judge, the President's son told newshawks: "My car is laid up until spring. . . . That's the last time I'm going to be seen in court on a charge arising from my use of my car. My father has troubles enough without being bothered by mine...
...Engineer Vauban, nothing would have seemed more preposterous to the Sun King than any question of whether the Saar is German or French. Having said "L'etat c'est moi," His Majesty would certainly have troubled no more about Saar nationality than to say "The Saar is mine!" Last week a lumpy lot of Teuton farmers and workmen from various parts of the U. S. enjoyed free passage on German ships as they were rushed Saarward to vote in the plebiscite...
Pressure, Down through a winterclad West Virginia valley before sunup puffed a four-car work-train filled with sleepy-eyed men. They were going to their jobs in a mine atop a nearby hill, owned by Elkhorn-Piney Coal Co., subsidiary of Koppers Coal & Transportation Co. of Pittsburgh, which also owned the train. As the train stopped at each little valley settlement, workmen climbed on jauntily swinging pails. With some 300 passengers aboard, Engineer William M. Blankenhorn stopped at the little mining community of Powellton, to work up more steam. Up & up went the pressure gauge. Satisfied that...
Died. George Wylie Paul ("Old Roman") Hunt, 75. seven times Governor of Arizona, onetime (1920-21) Minister to Siam; of heart disease after an attack of bronchitis; in Phoenix, Ariz. A onetime copper mine mucker, he served 14 years in Arizona's Territorial Legislature before he was chosen president of its constitutional convention, then in 1912, first Governor of the new State. He served more terms as Governor of a state than any other man in U. S. history...
...excited peasants from all of Italy's 93 provinces who surrounded him the Dictator finally exclaimed: "Now you understand what the cannon's voice has thundered in unison with mine! Both the plowshare and the sword are made of sharpened steel, similar to the faith that burns in our hearts...