Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technology. In Ann Arbor, Mich., the city did a thorough job of resurfacing streets, later had to dispatch an expert with a mine detector to locate the manholes...
...crane mounted on a U.S. Sherman chassis. The Sherman scrabbled up the steeper slopes, then towed up the Centaurs with its power winch. Out of seven Centaurs, two finally made the grade. Two got stuck a few hundred yards from their goal, and one blew its tracks on a mine. Getting the tanks down again for another sortie was almost as hard as getting them...
...play in pressagentry: it sent George Bernard Shaw a Schick razor. Wrote Eversharp's Sales Manager Thomas L. Kennedy.: "I am informed that you have expressed the desire ... to remove your beard ... If you must use any razor, I trust it will be none but mine...
...with a half-year net of about $9,000,000, was up 73%. The Denver, Rio Grande & Western, with a net of $3,583,395, was up 260%. A major exception was Robert R. Young's Chesapeake & Ohio (see below), whose profits were nipped a third by the mine stoppage. Even the small, potato-hauling Bangor & Aroostook, which had not made money in any June since 1935, showed a profit of about $20,000 last month...
...rise in profits to $2,019,029. Perhaps the best part of all this rich news was that backlogs, in general, were as big as ever. The prevailing optimism was expressed by Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., whose profits are running 66% over a year ago. Obviously undisturbed by coal-mine wage boosts, the company expected the second half to show "an even greater improvement...