Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horrified!" she snapped. "If industry depends on the little hand, then it had better stop. It is difficult for me to speak without emotion, and if the Duchess of Atholl had her way, English children would still be up the chimney and down the mine...
...Court in the Schechter case, the coal bill sponsored by Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph Guffey was ramrodded through Congress for three good reasons: 1) President Roosevelt publicly advised Congressmen to pass it, "however reasonable'' might be their doubts as to its constitutionality; 2) the United Mine Workers of America threatened a strike unless it was enacted; 3) most Northern coal operators favored the law because it promised to fix coal wages, thereby preventing Southern operators from underselling them. Last week before the Supreme Court the lawyers of several Southern coal operators proceeded to argue the reasonable doubts...
...millions. The Party is outside the constitution; it broods over the body politic like the spirit over the waters. Its aim is, by precept and example, to leaven Russia's lump. To this end, half its membership is kept ''at the bench or in the mine;" the other half act as overseers to Russia's babeling pyramid of committees...
...families live, last week's report was of less interest than the $100 bonus paid each employe last Christmas and the well-founded expectations of similar bonuses to come. Only four and one-half miles from legendary Deadwood, Lead is a wholly-owned company town with a unique mining-town tradition of health and tranquillity. It has never known a depression. There are no pool halls in Lead, no saloons, no drugstore loafers. Homestake spends $65,000 a year on its hospital, more on its recreation centre. Though Homestake is a non-union mine, miners' wages were never...
...husband's strikes from Sowbelly Gulch to St. Keven's, had gone West to be a schoolteacher. Evalyn was born in 1886, can still remember the two-room log cabin that was one of her early homes. Father's system was to buy up abandoned mines, undeveloped claims. He kept after it for 20 years before he made a big strike: then, in the abandoned Camp Bird Mine, he found the gold-bearing quartz vein that meant he had struck it rich...