Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camp at the Siglo Veinte (20th Century) tin mine, 12,000 feet high in the Bolivian Andes, Mrs. Elena O'Connor was preparing lunch. Her husband Tom, a Pasadena, Calif, engineer employed at the Patiño-owned mine, was visiting another U.S. engineer next door. Through her window Mrs. O'Connor saw 15 Indian miners rush to the neighbor's house and kick in the door. Minutes later the Indians came out dragging the two Americans, whose faces were blotched with blood...
Johnson would have liked to run for political office, too, but each time, after casing the situation, he decided that the moment was not quite ripe. The trouble was that the mine workers' union was all-powerful in West Virginia politics, and to the union boys, Louis was just another rich lawyer. "Like a good woman's virtue," one politico explained recently, "Louis' conservatism is taken for granted in West Virginia...
...moved to anger, not pity. Says Kruger: "That well-meaning poster destroyed a lot of dignity. It was asking for sympathy-one thing an amputee gets and doesn't want." Kruger knew what he was talking about; at 13 he had lost his right arm in a mine accident. The poster crystallized his determination to form a self-help organization for amputees...
...Cleveland, A.F.L. President Bill Green had some news for his executive board: John L. Lewis, who had marched his United Mine Workers out of the A.F.L. twice, wanted to march them back in again. But his price was still the same as when he "disaffiliated" last time: the A.F.L. should, like him, refuse to comply with the Taft-Hartley Act. The A.F.L. board said no, thanks...
Having made a specialty of the subject, the authors have acquired a certain affection for bad smells. They tell with considerable sympathy how smelly chemicals often save human lives. For example, when a mine has an accident, the operators often dump ethyl mercaptan (which smells like rotting cabbage, garlic, onions and sewer gas) into its air supply. The awful stench circulates quickly through every passage and forcefully warns the miners to run for their lives...