Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rice & Rubies. Prewar Burma was the world's largest exporter of rice, teak, rubies and jade. Its oil wells supplied its own needs and most of India's. The Mawgmi mine was the world's chief single source of tungsten...
With the toughest half of the double-header strike in steel and coal out of the way, the U.S. turned optimistically to idle soft-coal fields. John L. Lewis, who had been waiting for steel and the Steelworkers to settle, was expected to have his 380,000 United Mine Workers back in the pits in short order...
...Front Porch. First defendant to go to trial was self-assured, balding Coleman A. ("Brownie") Lollar. Lollar operated a scuttle-sized coal mine. He had also been a special deputy sherriff...
...Pardon. He pointed at Porterfield's carbine and yelled: "Is that thing loaded?" "No, sir," said the guardsman. "Well, son," said Reed happily, hauling out his .38, "mine is. Get going, you're under arrest...
...Muscle. But nothing was giving. Five weeks of strike-shrouded, ill-tempered negotiations between John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and the coal operators had only increased their distaste for each other. The northern and western operators walked out of the bargaining room in disgust last week, virtually inviting the U.S. Government to step in. Lewis apparently still hoped to stall the negotiations somehow until Phil Murray's 480,000 striking United Steelworkers settled their strike with the steel industry...