Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have discovered a process whereby coal production in any mine can be increased by 250% in three months. I took it to the science exhibition upstairs, but they don't want it. Then on my way out I reflected that this process would be more useful to the Marshall plan...
...general secretary and boss of the National Union of Mine Workers, Arthur Horner controls the key to Britain's survival-coal. No matter how much aid the U.S. gives Britain and the Continent, Europe cannot recover unless Britons mine more coal. After a slight increase last spring, coal production is falling off again. That was the gist of Fuel and Power Minister Emanuel Shinwell's report to the House of Commons last week...
Then Jim Horner's money ran out. Arthur had to quit his religious studies, take a job in the coal pits. But he kept preaching. His sermons became tinged with socialism, and gradually only socialism remained. The mine owners fired him and he was blacklisted in all the Welsh mines. When World War I broke out, he refused to bear arms in what he called "an imperialist and anti-working-class...
...last week's National Union of Mine Workers' conference at Rothesay, in Scotland, Horner gave a demonstration of his tactics and his might. On the platform he sat between grim, green-eyed Manny Shinwell and buck-toothed Lord Hyndley, chairman of the National Coal Board. Horner got from both of them exactly what he wanted. He asked for the closed shop, shorter hours, more social security...
House arrest all over Palestine for 90,000 Jews was in effect yesterday, as a mine blast in Halfa that killed one and wounded seven persons touched off a third consecutive night of violence in the Holy Land. The explosion occurred shortly after it was announced that 4,500 illegal Jowish immigrants, intercepted on the vessel President Warfield, were being returned to France. French sources had not decided last night whether to let the unwilling immigrants land, and were negotiating with the British...