Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year's coal strike differed from those of recent times in that the United Mine Workers never used their usual "no contract, no work" slogan. Instead, after the last contract expired on June 31, the miners inaugurated a three-day work week in an effort to strengthen their bargaining position. Their aim was to cut down existing coal stocks without the odium or financial stress of going out on strike...
Meanwhile, the cut in the work week had cut coal production from 11,000,000 to 8,000,000 tons a week, reducing the income of the Fund by $600,000 weekly. The mine operators claimed that the income had dropped to $7,000,000 a month, while pensions and benefits were being distributed at an $11,000,000 monthly rate...
...next day. Scores of men came running and crawling through the woods, shot it out with the Preskitts for two hours. One intruder was carried away with a shattered jaw, his chest and abdomen peppered with buckshot. The Preskitts finally gave in, agreed to close down their mine until "an agreement" could be reached. But other independents kept operating. "We're going to stay in operation unless we're shot out," roared one owner...
Layoffs & Grocery Bills. John L. Lewis himself was devoting only part of his time to the state of his mine workers. He absented himself from negotiations with the operators at White Sulphur Springs and Bluefield, W.Va., and traveled to Springfield, Ill. to visit his 91-year-old mother who was seriously Ill. But the two-week-old coal strike he had imposed upon the nation-and on his 480,000 coal miners-was clearly not accomplishing its purpose...
Bogart's wife, Actress Lauren ("Baby") Bacall, issued a loud, public critique of his actions while in the bar at "21." "This husband of mine has to go out and get loaded," said Baby. "That's what happens when you're pushing 50. This burns me up . . ." She added: "You can quote me on this: my husband is wonderful...