Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black-scarred coal strips and tipples of 70 independent coal mines, owners and a scattering of non-union diggers worked warily, with loaded shotguns and rifles close at hand. A convoy of 15 loaded coal trucks was ambushed in hilly Centre County, attacked with rifle fire and stones before the drivers could rumble on to safety. At Grassflat, a $10,000 tipple of the Junedale Coal Co. was blown up by a 50-lb. charge of dynamite. One non-union mine owner drove off marauding strikers with a brace of .45 automatics; another was stabbed during an argument with U.M.W...
...picketing union miners tried to repair small defects in the weapon that had always served them best-a nationwide coal strike. A Hawkes Coal Co. tipple near Morgantown, Ky. was dynamited. In a lonely stretch of northwest Alabama, six brothers named Preskitt stocked their 150-ton-a-day strip mine with all the weapons they could find and waited grimly for something to happen...
While the U.S. warily eyed the storm clouds over the steel industry last week, the storm hit from another direction. John L. Lewis gestured with majestic arrogance to his 480,000 United Mine Workers and they knew what to do. This week the nation's coal mines were shut down by strike...
...idea," explained Joseph van der Straeten, mine host at La Paix tavern in Belgium's seaside city of Knocke, "was to float slowly over the beach so that everyone could see me, then drop a trail rope to a waiting launch which would tow me back to shore. Generally speaking, it is a good idea. I've done it more than 60 times before. But this time it was not a good idea...
...Laurent is Prime Minister of one of the world's richest nations. Canada (pop. 13,000,000) leads the world in production of newsprint, nickel and asbestos; stands second in wheat exports, aluminum and zinc; third in copper, gold & silver mining. The hemisphere's richest uranium mine is in the Canadian North. The vast iron-ore deposits in Labrador and Quebec can replace the dwindling U.S. Mesabi range as the mainstay of U.S. steelmaking. New oilfields in Alberta are already compared to the fabulous wells of west Texas...