Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slave labor" bill-and launched its campaign. To beat the bill, the A.F.L. alone poured $1,000,000 into newspaper ads, radio programs and mass meetings, all adding up to a demand that the President veto it. In Pennsylvania and Indiana, 17,000 of Jonn Lewis' mine workers walked out in protest strikes. From California, A.F.L. and C.I.O. delegates moved on Washington in a "veto caravan" of 100 autos; they hoped to stage an eleventh-hour demonstration at the White House...
Gold was off by 60%. The great Alaska Juneau lode mine was closed. But other forms of gold digging throve. Gold dredges nosed along the pay streak in valleys near Fairbanks. And many an Arctic placer miner would go it with bulldozer and sluice box, gambling for a stake through weeks of mud, mosquitoes and midnight...
What was their attitude? What did they want? In an effort to find out, TIME correspondents visited 38 campuses last week and questioned students and their teachers. Surprisingly similar replies indicated that the chief concern of the Class of '47 was "Me and Mine...
...Curry made a report on his findings last week before the American College of Allergists, in Atlantic City. U.S. doctors kept a firm grip on themselves (though some of their private opinions were unprintable). Pessimists among them feared that the aran theory, whatever its merits, would prove a gold mine for quacks and medical faddists...
...boss of Robbins is breezy, grey-haired Theodore Leavens, 46, who has thought up some of Robbins' best knickknacks. One item was inspired by a memory of his Montana boyhood near a mine with ore too poor to mine. Leavens put out a ring with a chunk of "real gold...