Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitting in on the discussions will be nine industrialists chosen by the National Association of Manufacturers, nine chosen by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, eight delegates from A.F. of L., eight from C.I.O., one each from the United Mine Workers and Railroad Brotherhoods. Their chairman, chosen by mutual consent, will be North Carolina's Judge Walter Parker Stacy, a sober and fair-minded arbiter of many a past labor dispute...
William Braden made a point of taking his family wherever he went. When schools were scarce, Spruille's mother tutored him. At 16 he entered Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, took a year off to mine, cut timber and slush about the oilfields of the West, then graduated at 20. Yale knew "Fat" Braden as an All-America goal in water polo, and as a discriminating but notable eater. His class annual characterized him: "He hath eaten me out of house and home." His mother later said that the English language, as perfected at Yale and spoken...
Ridenour, an expert on guided missiles, declared, "Of two principal important causes of means for using the atomic bomb, the first, and overwhelmingly the most important, is the infernal machine, or mine, which has been located in operating position during peacetime...
...gesture, which sent some 210,000 miners back to work after four weeks of idleness and a 13,000,000-ton loss of coal production, was made with a fitting air of preoccupied charity. He simply told his United Mine Workers that demands for recognition of their foremen's union-basis of the strike-would be postponed to "a later, more appropriate date." The public was informed, not by Lewis, but by a "spokesman," who explained with a straight face that the action was "obviously . . . taken in the public interest...
...Mine was bed-wetting-still is," an eight-year-old giggled...