Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Approaching Konitsa, a few shells passed overhead as we bumped along in a Canadian-built truck which the makers would not have recognized, there was so much wire and string holding it together. We lost count of the mine craters and dead disemboweled mules along the roadside...
Died. Albert Mussey Johnson, 75, retired insurance executive, grubstaker of "Death Valley Scotty" and his legend of a fabulous gold mine; after an operation; in Los Angeles. Johnson met Desert Rat Scott in 1904, thereafter kept him supplied with enough money to maintain-for 26 years-the hoax of a private bonanza. Johnson built Scotty a $3,000,000 castle in the '30s, revealed in 1941 that he had also "lent" him $500,000 over three decades. Chuckled Johnson: "He paid me back in laughs...
...Doesburg display, sponsored by the Graduate School of Design and the Boston Institute of Modern Art, was arranged by Mine. Van Doesburg and is its last public exhibition...
...Union labor pointed at the fat corporate profits and demanded a bigger cut too. (Average weekly wages in all manufacturing industries rose 9.87% to $51.75.) There was also a significant shift in the size of the cut that the different segments of labor got. John L. Lewis' mine workers, once $24-a-week workers, were the aristocrats of labor; their wages averaged more than $70 a week. The auto workers, once about the best paid, were passed in the wage parade by a handful of others...
Gospodin Wallace. In schoolrooms, happy moppets chalked up such spontaneous slogans as: "Let's Be Shock Brigadiers in Education and in Work." "Now there is no more persecution, or hatred, or exploitation," said a "typical" Serb; "[but] why is it that your country and mine can't get along?" "What we cannot understand," said another, "is why your Gospodin Wallace . . . does not have the big majority of the American public with...