Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Massively enthroned at United Mine Workers headquarters, he lambasted the congressional supporters of the bill with purely automatic violence: "The Republican Party sold out to American industry for cash contributions to the congressional campaign. There is one thing about the Republican Congress-it stays bought. . . . Who's loony now?" he demanded...
...Marshal Albert Kesselring at his surrender in 1945. When a British war crimes court sentenced him to death for the reprisal killings by German troops of 1,413 Italian civilians, Kesselring did not deny his responsibility (TIME, May 19). "If there is any guilt," he said stoutly, "it is mine and mine alone." To his defense came distinguished British soldiers. Said Lieut. General Sir Oliver Leese, who commanded the British forces opposite Kesselring : "He was a gallant soldier who fought well and squarely. If things had gone the other way, the man sentenced to death might have been...
Nine days later, the six reached Lethbridge, 3,600 miles away, where they heard that miners could earn $15 a day. Within an hour, Cameron and four of his friends had jobs at a Lethbridge Collieries Ltd. mine. The sixth had a job near...
After three days they had had enough. They were good miners, said their boss, but they were soft-coal miners in a hard-coal mine and they seemed "as lost as a lobster in an Alberta lake." Said one of the Capemen: "We want no more of it. It's too hard work...
...dickering urge is so strong that his wife is hardly able to get him to buy her a new saddle horse: "He's likely to sell [it] on the way home." Away from horseflesh, Owen is not so shrewd. Recently he lost around $125,000 on a zinc mine. However, he expects to make up much of the loss on his Mexican deal. Already he has shipped 1,000 mules, has another 1,000 ready to go. He figures on filling the rest of his contract long before Congress gets around to doing anything about mules...