Word: mined
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...terrorists had added a distinctive touch; they had booby-trapped one of their victims. When searchers cut down Martin's body, it touched off a contact mine set by the Irgun. His body was blasted to nothingness, Paice's was mutilated, a British officer was wounded...
...Britain's diamond cartel, a most disturbing thing had happened in 1941. A fabulously rich diamond bed was discovered in Tanganyika, Africa. It was eight times larger than South Africa's famed Premier Mine, previously the world's largest, and thus big enough to break the cartel's tight control of the diamond market. Even more worrisome to the cartel were signs that the new bed's discoverer, a bearded, scholarly Canadian named John Thorburn Williamson, 40, did not intend to join the cartel...
...retired Canadian lumber dealer, Williamson was used to playing a lone hand. After acquiring a Ph.D. in geology at McGill University, he went to South Africa to work for a copper mine in 1934. He quit to roam the veldt in search of diamonds. After he found them (according to one story, a native found a diamond and took him to the site), he settled down to mining...
...built up a working force of 6,000 native miners, provided them with movies, hospitals, and excellent working conditions. He seldom left his remote house in Tanganyika and he amused himself by listening to the radio and reading. Last year the annual output of his mine reached an estimated value...
Died. The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Cook, 86, who went to work as a pit boy in an English coal mine at the age of nine, later moved to Australia where he was one of the early members of the New South Wales Labor Party, then turned to the Right and rose from the Liberal Party to be Prime Minister of Australia (1913-14); of a heart ailment; in Sydney...