Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caustic: "If only the Harrises were involved, one might be brutally indifferent. ... [But] what is involved far transcends the fate of some sordid offender. . . . How can there be freedom of thought or freedom of speech or freedom of religion if the police can, without warrant, search your house and mine from garret to cellar merely because they are executing a warrant of arrest? . . . Yesterday the justifying document was an illicit ration book, tomorrow it may be some suspect piece of literature...
...interested in silk screen printing, court tennis, Canadian gold mining camps and gold mine stock promotion, cryptography, soil conservation, sump pumps...
Credit for the Arctic new deal goes to Dr. Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, new Deputy Minister of Mines & Resources, Commissioner of the Territories, and chairman of the council. He sees no need for secrecy. The mantle of mystery which has shrouded the Arctic is being stripped away by radio, airplane and Caterpillar tractors, and its government may as well be exposed, too. No less important, the council roster now includes for the first time a representative of the people governed: hulking (6 ft., 227 Ibs.) John G. McNiven, mine manager for Negus Mines, and-as a fellow councilor describes...
...survey, set up by last year's pact between Secretary of Interior Julius A. Krug and the miners' John L. Lewis, had been politically inspired. But there could be no doubt of its professional impartiality. The investigators, headed by Rear Admiral Joel T. Boone, blamed both the mine owners and the United Mine Workers for the fact that a large part of the nation's mining population, "bypassed" by progress, "has benefited little by improved standards of housing and health." Some findings...
...majority of miners are members of prepaid medical-care plans conducted jointly by mine owners and the union. But doctors are often appointed by favoritism (with the union conniving) and patients often have no choice of a physician. Medical service does not cover childbearing or venereal disease. Three-fourths of the hospitals available to miners are substandard in some way; hospital insurance plans drastically limit benefits (e.g., they do not cover hospitalization for a contagious disease). Despite the high rate of mine accidents, only 28% of the mines have adequate first-aid facilities...