Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squad of marines, needed only a flick of John L. Lewis' shaggy black brows. In 23 states, 400,000 miners simply stayed home to spade their gardens, wet a line in a good sucker stream or sit back and warm a well-calloused toe on the kitchen stove. Mine operators sent all but a skeleton force of supervisors home...
...crocuses were out and so were the miners. According to custom, the strike began on the first minute of All Fools' Day, but affected no mine schedules until 24 hours later...
...C.I.O.'s International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers demanded a 29?-an-hour wage increase for 40,000 workers. Alternative: a strike affecting 67 Canadian companies...
Last week NLRB boldly threw the door wide open as it ordered an election to determine whether supervisory employes of Jones & Laughlin's Vesta-Shannopin Coal Division should be represented by the United Mine Workers...
What made Germany tick through six years of war despite skimpy resources and raw materials? After V-E day, hundreds of scientists, technicians and researchers from U.S. industry, started fine-tooth-combing Germany for the answer. From abandoned mine shafts, underground storehouses, and even river beds came documents, equipment and gadgets. This week officials concerned with the search lifted the veil from some of the 16,000 machines and processes that showed how cleverly the enemy had improvised and improved. Some of them...