Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under about ten hours. Each carried at the end of a stick a ten-kilogram explosive charge with contact fuse. A floating chamber behind the charge made it easy to handle. The fukuryus, organized in squads and platoons, were to wait till a vessel passed overhead, then ram the mine into the ship's bottom. They were to be protected from bombardment by underwater "foxholes"-sections of large concrete pipe fitted with steel doors...
...Come By Chance. They dotted their 6,000 miles of deeply indented coastline and the spruce and fir-studded hinterland with modest frame houses, often surrounded by little flower and vegetable gardens. Most made their living by codfishing; others went down into the submarine depths of Bell Island to mine iron ore. Still others cut pulpwood for the paper mills at modern Grand Falls and Corner Brook...
...reported Lord Haw-Haw's trial in a memorable piece for the New Yorker. Last week, in a 13-column essay in the same magazine, Reporter West covered the eight-minute trial of The Crown v. John Amery, traitor. Her piece showed up the run-of-the-mine court reporter as the deadline-hurried, space-confined newsman he generally...
...miners struck in sympathy; they wanted Dr. Betty back. During the long deadlock, which lasted all summer and fall, Dr. Betty gave emergency medical care. The mine operators, who were losing a lot of money (probably enough, says Dr. Betty, to have cleaned up the sewage), locked up Dr. Betty's office, on which she had paid the rent, took out some of her medical supplies and books and put a policeman at the door to keep her out. She haled the mine managers into court...
...Harry Truman officially organized his "Hardrock Club." Its membership: White House aides and newsmen who had accompanied him on his successful vice-presidential campaign tour last year and on the trip to Potsdam. The name refers to the time Harry Truman and the newsmen went down a Montana copper mine last year. The club pin: a golden miner's pick...