Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowded southern Illinois coal fields, the Old Ben Coal Corp.'s No. 8 mine had a good record of safety. State mine inspectors had checked and okayed it on May 29. The night of July 23, the large, 37-year-old mine had as usual been rock-dusted to localize possible gas explosions. But the next afternoon, while a full shift of 264 miners worked underground, a crushing blast shook one of No. 8's 500-ft.-deep galleries. Near the source of the explosion, 27 miners died, five were injured. The cause: "Ignition of methane...
Illinois' Governor Dwight H. Green, interrupting a vacation to visit the scene, reported that all state mine-safety laws had been complied with. John L. Lewis, interrupting a visit to his mother in Springfield, Ill., was greeted at Old Ben's tipple by his younger brother, 54-year-old, publicity-shy Howard Lewis.* Underground superintendent for No. 8, Howard had luckily not been below when the blast occurred...
Others feel differently. Said a mine owner: "That bad little devil! I'd willingly strangle him with my own bare hands...
...mine uranium-bearing pitchblende, the Russians are using tens of thousands of Germans, draftees (i.e., slaves) and volunteers. This week from Leipzig an A.P. correspondent reported on the primitive conditions under which the pitchblende miners work in the Erz Gebirge (ore mountains) of Saxony. They carry the pitchblende to the surface in crude buckets attached to winches. In one shaft workers must climb up & down a 500-ft. ladder. The whole area is under heavy guard. Once in the mine area, even volunteer miners may not leave. The pitchblende is flown direct from Saxony to the Soviet Union...
...Economic Advisers, which sent its midyear report to Congress this week, thought so too. The change from fear of recession to fear of inflation "has been unduly stimulated by such events as the corn crop scare," it said, "and an exaggerated interpretation of the effects of the coal mine wage adjustment. Some persons have scoffed at the idea that businessmen could or would follow a stabilizing course. Yet the reaction among progressive business leaders [in the last six months] was such as to make new possibilities of orderly price corrections in a free economy through the voluntary action of individual...