Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relieved the feelings of the 1,200 U. A. W. delegates on the floor. Their union, which has mushroomed from 30,000 to 375,000 members since it convened in South Bend, Ind. a year ago, which is now the third biggest union in C. I. 0. (after United Mine Workers) was badly contorted by growing pains. The disagreement between cocky, young Homer Martin and his vice presidents, Wyndham Mortimer and Ed Hall, brewing ever since Martin blamed them for this summer's sporadic "unauthorized" General Motors sitdowns, had reached such a point that President Martin was determined...
Last year Painter Jackson died and was succeeded by slight, handsomely greying Harry Noyes Pratt, onetime editor, art student, poet (Mother of Mine & Other Verse, 1918) and director of a historical museum in Stockton, Calif. Director Pratt's first purchase was a vacuum cleaner, with which he took up two and one-half pounds of dust in his own room alone. Next thing he did was to clean and space the Crocker paintings, which had been jammed on the leaking walls like one-cent stamps on a special delivery letter. Then Director Pratt put on his old clothes...
...beautiful packet, priced it lower, the sales were still nil. Chinese customers, guided by the Confucian maxim that "fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue," merely figured the more elegant the packet, the cheaper the price, the shoddier the quality. Drugs, another leading gold mine for western civilization's advertisers, were an even bigger flop than cigarets. "The total consumption of foreign pills," says Crow, "probably does not average much more than one pill per annum per person." Yet curiously enough reliable insurance companies call the Chinese as good risks as English or Americans...
...first note of awe in Author O'Connor's account comes with his description of how the Guggenheims got into the mining business. Preferring to loan money personally rather than trust the banks. Meyer put up $25,000 with a speculating Quaker named Charles Graham, who for $4,000 had bought a water-filled, 70-ft. silver mine in Leadville, Colo. It turned out to be the richest mine in the Rockies. The only Jew in turbulent Leadville, Meyer, now past 50, decided to build his own smelter because he was annoyed with smelter fees. Said a superintendent...
...from $30,000,000 to $40,000,000 in the next twelve months. In return, the U. S. will grant the Soviet Union most-favored-nation commercial treatment for the first time. Unfavorable reaction to the new pact last week came from the Pennsylvania Coal industry whose United Mine Workers and mine operators let out a howl in unison. Both were alarmed because, in carrying out Secretary Hull's policy of building up foreign trade, the agreement was expected to exempt Soviet coal and coke from a special $2-a-ton tax, assessed under the Revenue...