Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sore heel, went to bat as a pinch hitter and drew a walk; Groth got a single in five times at bat, tossed out a Yankee at the plate with a good throw from center field. Did Groth look like an heir apparent? In spite of a mine-run performance that day, he handled himself with confidence; to sportwriters he seemed a good candidate for rookie-of-the-year. DiMag reserved judgment: "I got to see him do more than he did today...
...group of paintings shown in Toledo is substantially reduced from the one Washington saw. Of the 202 pictures shipped to the U.S. after Third Army troops discovered them in a Merkers (Germany) salt mine in 1945, some 100 of the more fragile ones have already been returned. Nonetheless, the collection is still imposing, includes ten Rembrandts (one of them The Man with the Golden Helmet), two Rubenses and two Botticellis...
Every year, millions of tons of coal are laboriously mined (at costs averaging $2.50 a ton), dumped into ovens and distilled, producing gas. For 80 years, scientists have been thinking of producing the gas without bothering to mine the coal. Lenin, picking up a British suggestion, wanted to try it in Russia. Since his death the Russians claim to have produced this kind of cheap power in many places...
Last week, the first big U.S. experiment with the process got under way at the Alabama Power Co.'s Gorgas mine, 55 miles northwest of Birmingham. (A small-scale test at the same site two years ago gave promising but inconclusive results.) A thermite bomb was exploded 160 ft. below the surface, at the bottom of a borehole at the south end of the seam. Running northward through the coal for 1,200 ft. were two parallel entries (tapped by additional boreholes every 300 ft.) through which air could be driven under pressure...
Both of these men are working under Navy contracts, like most of the research physicists in the University. The contracts have been a gold-mine to the science labs, for the departments themselves have enough cash for only two or three projects...