Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Homer Ferguson's War Investigating subcommittee, digging into the wartime contracts of Millionaire Plane-builder Howard Hughes, had turned up some gaudy ore. It glittered with headline names, beautiful girls, fantastic expense accounts (TIME, Aug. 4). Last week, the committee went deep into one of the abandoned mine shafts of history, guided by big-time World War II administrators and brasshats and-somewhat unwillingly-by a Hollywood pressagent and a President's son. It found more...
Afterward, Attlee met a miners' committee, including Mine Union Boss Arthur Homer, a Communist whose first loyalties might not belong to his country in crisis (TIME, July 28). Attlee pleaded: would the miners work an extra half hour daily, or an extra half day weekly? The men from the mines agreed-if the Government promised not to revoke the newly granted five-day week...
...official mail, manuscript and memoranda. Much of the material has been referred to and quoted in the works of Lincoln's two secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay. Later it became the source material of innumerable books by other authors. But it would be a rich mine of Lincolniana. Few collections have led so closely guarded an existence...
...last week, on his gist birthday, his beard bristled as of old. "Get out! Go!" he railed at a London Evening Standard newsman who had distantly referred to his birthday. "The man who even utters the word 'birthday' . . . is no friend of mine. . . . Good afternoon. Don't come again...
...recent coal-mine wage boosts, said steelmen, were the last straw on a pile of increased costs which they have been absorbing. The increases in steel wages last spring, said Republic, had amounted to "approximately $4.50 per ton of steel" and had caused a drop in the second quarter profits (see Earnings...