Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the middle of April, 63 striking gravediggers of the United Mine Workers' catch-all District 50 had stopped all burials at Cleveland's nonsectarian Lakeview Cemetery (where President James Garfield lies beneath a towering monument). Holding out for a 10?-an-hour pay raise, pickets prevented delivery of tombstones and a Memorial Day flagpole, chased off two gardeners working on a private plot. Stacked on two-by-fours in the Lakeview chapel, jammed into two crypts and the hallway were 103 coffins, awaiting interment. This week the American Legion took its hat in hand and went around...
...Where are ye going?" said a voice with a strong Scotch accent. I stopped and looked. . . . On one of the rocks sat a very tall man, almost a giant, with a flowing beard. . . . Here was an enthroned and shining god, whose ageless spirit weighed upon mine like a burden of solid gold: and yet, at the very same moment, here was an old, weather-beaten man, one who might have been a shepherd...
Like a mourner laying a nosegay on a grave, Miss Josephine Roche last week paid the first liquidating dividend of her bankrupt Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., the company the United Mine Workers loved. The dividend of 25? on each of the company's 758,720 shares of common stock came from sales of coal lands and royalties from mines leased to other companies...
...would-be engineer, Chen was chiefly interested in the U.S. Working his way, he studied for a year at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Mines. After his M.S. thesis, Application of Mechanical and Electrical Devices to Coal Mining in China, Chen took an even more advanced course. He signed up as a coal miner in Pittsburgh and Scranton collieries,* held a card in John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers...
...schoolchildren, babies and 15 persons rounded up at the last minute as "extras"). Two subordinate German generals have been sentenced to death for that outrage (TIME, Dec. 9). But pug-faced, "Smiling Albert" Kesselring was still a good enough soldier to insist, "If there is any guilt, it is mine and mine alone...