Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine years ago, in a play of mine in rehearsal in the Lyric Theatre in London, the time was supposed to change from the present to 1783, during a blackout. We were afraid the audience wouldn't believe in this. So Professor Wood installed for us, against the theatre's back wall, one organ pipe, height circa 40 ft., the biggest pipe that could be carted through traffic and in the stage door. Its purpose was kept a mystery. Wood's idea was that the lowest of all notes, subaudible, but vibrating the eardrum, would produce...
...your subscriber. In your last volume is a article about Csechoslovakia what happen to be mine native country [TIME, June...
...rival delegations stayed at different hotels last week in Washington. But John Lewis insisted on seeing them together at his palatial new United Mine Workers headquarters. There he gave them a stiff six-hour talking to. Grim and tired, Leader Lewis emerged to announce that all parties would go to Capitol Hill next day to lobby for an important labor bill, an amendment to the Walsh-Healey Act making compliance with the Wagner Act a prerequisite for firms awarded Government contracts. After that, the factions were to reconvene at the Lewis headquarters...
...cinematic soprano; to Andre Kostelanetz, 36, orchestra leader who two years ago flew 126,000 miles shuttling between New York, where he conducted, and Hollywood, where he courted ("I proposed to Lily every time I went out"); in a tea house on Miss Pons's estate at Silver Mine, Conn. Maid of honor: Soprano Geraldine Farrar. Guests: Sopranos Grace Moore, Gladys Swarthout...
Last week, with demand and prices still falling-on the London Metal Exchange copper dipped well below the 9? figure-producers shivered, for many a mine goes into the red when copper brings less than 9? a pound. Momentary relief came at week's end when German censors, after 15 days' delay, finally released figures on the Reich's copper stocks.* With these in hand, April foreign copper statistics could at last be compiled. These showed that foreign stocks of refined copper were reduced during April from 197,470 to 185,916 tons; that world refined stocks...