Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yours was a concise, accurate and understandable explanation of an involved subject that required 36 pages and 44 illustrations in the Archives. ... It has always been my desire to tell this story in the shortest effective manner. TIME did this, and [the] sketches were better than mine...
...sweated in a coal mine for 23 of his 77 years, and who could remember when organized labor led an almost furtive existence, it was a thrilling sight. In October 1947, the A.F.L. had 7,600,000 members-45,000 of them gained in the last twelve months. It was rich and powerful and often spoke to the public in the rich basso of full-page newspaper advertisements...
...Zhdanov and Georgi M. Malenkov, both members of Russia's ruling Politburo and close advisers of Joseph Stalin. Other top Communist brass who attended: Rumania's Ana Pauker; Yugoslavia's Vice Premier Edward Kardelj; Poland's Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka and Minister of Industry Hilary Mine; Jacques Duclos, secretary of the French Communist Party; Italy's Luigi Longo and Eugenio Reale, and delegates from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary...
...Life. Government files contain reports on the miseries of Lota-its mine galleries reaching out under the sea, its underhoused town, its undernourished children. One of the reports says that no Chilean family can subsist on less than 65 pesos ($2.60) daily. But 33-year-old Juan Soto, a typical miner, who has dug Lota's coal for 16 years, gets 30 pesos for an eight-hour day's work. Neither he nor his wife and three small children remember having ever bought cheese or fruit, but they do get some milk...
...didn't wanna do it. I didn't wanna do it!" screams Al. "I was swindled into it by this tremendous ego of mine. I'm like a chile, I tell yah! 'Al,' I said, 'Al, old fella, they wantcha again. They finally seen the light.' Oh Lawdy, I got 'em good. And I just couldn't resist rubbing their noses...