Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what of the owners, the Centralia Coal Co.? Could it be possible that they too are somewhat at fault? After all, who knew better than they the condition and safety of the mine? Who, ultimately, gives the go-ahead signal to the miners to work a certain mine...
...soft-coal dispute, frozen by John Lewis' gruesome "memorial" strike, melted this week like an April thaw. Lewis' miners, losing millions of dollars in wages and gaining not a thing, had been drifting back. Secretary of the Interior Julius ("Cap") Krug had thrown responsibility for mine safety right back at Lewis himself. Then Lewis' old nemesis, Justice T. Alan Goldsborough, melted the last block...
...focus of public attention might help improve the situation further; but mining would remain the most dangerous trade a man could follow. The point was that last week John Lewis-a man who has spoken much but done little about mine safety-was using the hard lot and misfortunes of his miners to wreak revenge on a Government which had dared bring...
Observers conceded that the G.O.P. state administration's part in the Centralia mine disaster (see Labor) accounted for the loss of about 75,000 votes. For the rest, the Republicans could blame their own blunders and the political genius of the new Democratic boss, Jake Arvey. Little Jake's astute handling of the old Kelly machine and his timely dumping of Boss Ed himself had gone far to retrieve last November's disaster...
...George Bernard Shaw told an interviewer for a spiritualist journal, "belief in individual survival is horror. To realize that, think not of your own individual survival but of mine. . . . Could you bear it?" He used to go to seances, said Shaw, but he never gets invited any more. He always cheated at them, he explained...