Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspapers and radios carried the information that the union had knowledge of the dangerous conditions existing in the mine more than a year ago, but only passed the knowledge on to the state government. If this is true .. . the widows and orphans of the men killed in the mine should take proper court action against Lewis and the union for criminal neglect in failing to call...
John L. Lewis murdered in men in a coal mine in Illinois. He murdered them just as surely as if he had given the order resulting in their deaths...
From the hinterland of coal-hungry France, word reached Paris that a rich coal mine had been discovered at Tremolin in the Loire Department. Interministerial conferences were held. Then came the decree, signed by the President of the Government and the Ministers of Industrial Production, Finance and National Economy. It said: "All mining installations, materials, patents and licenses, buildings for housing the workers and other industrial chattels belonging to the Tremolin Mining Corporation, owned by Monsieur Jacques Garden are confiscated and declared state property...
Last week a reporter of the Paris newspaper France-Soir visited the expropriated Monsieur Garden, found him in shirtsleeves in a shabby little house. Said the lean old man: "The Tremolin coal trust, c'est moil" Then Gardon led the reporter to his backyard to see the mine fields. "There it is," said Gardon. "I see nothing," replied the puzzled reporter. "Voila, behind the bush...
High on the chill slopes of Bolivia's 12,000-ft. altiplano, a cholo (half-Indian) store clerk one day let a prospector settle a $250 account for a claim to a tin mine. The clerk's boss, outraged by the deal, gave him the claim and made him pay the bill. That was how, at the turn of the century, cholo Simón I. Patiño got into the tin business. For years, he and his sinewy wife wielded picks, hauled up buckets, smashed ore. By 1910, they were rich...