Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these traditions and ties and economic loyalties must be overcome if the United States is to develop as she has so far. South America represents a gold-mine for American interests, and this mine has scarcely been tapped. Now, with war looming on the European horizon, with England's "Royal salesman" embroiled in a messy scandal and with internecine strife besetting Japan, the stage is set for an immediate American entry into the Pan-American economic scene. The present policy of reciprocal trade agreements has not only brought a great measure of prosperity to formerly impoverished South-American states...
Leader Lewis' United Mine Workers and the nine other industrial unions then composing C. I. O. were suspended from A. F. of L. by its Executive Council last summer (TIME, Aug. 17). Since then the future course of the U. S. labor movement has hung in a suspense which was expected to be resolved at Tampa. Instead the convention delegates voted to: 1) affirm the Executive Council's suspension order; 2) direct the Executive Council to continue efforts at reconciliation; 3) empower the Executive Council to summon a special convention of the Federation if they should finally feel...
This first edition of the original journal is far more than a gold mine for perspicacious scholars and philologists. In it, for the first time, we find slightly gross incidents, evidently too perturbing for the delicate tastes of former Victorian editors. New light is shed on Boswell's simple, superstitious nature, and Johnson gives us more logic and heavy wit. There is, perhaps, no better account of life in Scotland around...
Baragwanath's two biggest adventures were finding some Inca treasure and buying a salted mine that cost his employers, American Mining & Smelting Co., $30,000. The Inca treasure turned up while he was hunting for coal on the Andean plateau east of Port of Salaverry, Peru. He saw some natives wading in a lake during a snowstorm, investigated, found they were taking out gold and silver ornaments. He jumped in with them and got 75 pieces, which he gave to the American Museum of Natural History...
Baragwanath never understood how he was duped with a salted mine, or why he was not fired for buying it. His swindle was minor compared to some he has heard of since : an old farmer in Georgia who tricked experts and promoters into paying $150,000 for worthless gravel; the celebrated Mulatos salting by which an exhausted mine was sold for $1,575,000. Baragwanath's friend Joslin met a still trickier game. Inspecting a claim near Porcupine, Canada, Joslin reported that it was salted, took no samples of the rock into which the gold had obviously been pounded...