Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortnight ago, the same line signed the largest air express contract on record and last week reported the successful completion of the first dozen bites into the 1,000,000 Ib. of equipment that it has agreed to fly over the Andes into northern Bolivia to reopen a gold mine abandoned two centuries...
...task was to move 500 tons of mining plant and workers from La Paz 60 miles over the peaks to the long disused Tipuani Valley Mine lying almost at sea level in a depression between the Andes. At take-off an airplane must rise from a landing field at La Paz, 12,000 feet above the Pacific, and immediately rise another 8,000 feet to clear the crest of the Cordillera before descending into the narrow valley...
...first novel.- With her book now in its third edition in Austria, translated into Italian, French and Czech, 35-year-old Novelist Lehmann last week made her debut in the U. S. A love story, in the same vein as Marcia Davenport's best-selling Of Lena Geyer, Mine Lehmann's story attempts no coloratura flights, is content to be an amiable romance...
...followers could also take pleasure in Artist Jules's restrained, luminous color. Best pictures: Little Tailor, showing, through the huge foreground frame of a sewing machine, a pallid gnome bent over his stitching; Mine Baseball, in which the figures of the players are dark on a field yellow with late afternoon sunlight against a dark background of mine breakers and hills; Jury, whose procession of fat and lean brainless bourgeois figures directly recalled Daumier's treatments of the same subject; The Liberals, which presents, out on a limb, the Scientist, the Man who Sees Both Sides, the Indecisive...
Alda on her contemporaries: (Geraldine Farrar): "She and I were never friends." (Enrico Caruso): "His voice and mine blended so completely that they became one voice. The voice of humanity-male and female-joined into one." (Marion Talley): "If ever a child had a God-given voice, that girl had it. But intelligence about using it? That's something else again." (Maria Jeritza, who she says asked her for voice instruction): "No. You and I are friends now. But if I started to teach you we wouldn't be friends. Let's leave it at that." (Ganna...