Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instinct to survive. It was this failure that a Frenchwoman had in mind when she said to an American, in a sweltering Paris restaurant last week: "The fate of Western civilization is being settled now-this week. And there seems to be nobody, in your country or mine, or in any country, with enough imagination to save...
...country where tin supplies two-thirds of the national income and four-fifths of Government revenue, Patiño's maneuver was also a political power-play. It knocked the wind out of the six-month-old Government of President Enrique Hertzog. A fragile coalition of pro-mine-owner Conservatives and the Marxist Left Revolutionary Party (P.I.R.), it had held together only because of common fear that the supporters of the late Dictator-President Villarroel, who wound up his career dangling from a lamppost (TIME, July 29, 1946), might stage a comeback...
Miners at the Brynhenllys mine in Wales struck for an even more trivial reason. There 300 men wildcatted because Will Rees was assigned a new pit pony, named "Britton," instead of his five-year favorite "Bomber." They returned to work only when Rees got Bomber back...
Today Dr. Salsbury's 150-bed mission hospital is the reservation's showpiece. Salsbury has four assistants (three of them Chinese) and has trained scores of Indian nurses. He also runs a high school, a home-economics school, an ice plant, a power plant, a coal mine (the mission digs all its own fuel...
Biggest Business. Slaves and slave camps are the private property of the MVD, and their productivity has made the Soviet secret police the world's biggest business. Slaves build electric power dams, factories, canals, railroads. They mine coal, iron, gold. By Dallin's estimate, they represent at least one out of every four Soviet workers. Since they can be regimented without appeal, worked to death without mercy and paid little or nothing, they are the Soviet Government's most profitable labor...