Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gunning's advice, as reported by you, is still the best there is. It is Flesch's; it's also mine: Write as you talk...
Tomorrow will see the Crimson fleet take to the water in the 440-yard freestyle, the 100-yard sprint, and the 200-yard breast stroke. John Watkins in the 100, Jerry Gorman, Forbes Norris, and Larry Mine in the quarter. Chuck Hoelzer in his butterfly specialty, and the three divers, this time from the three meter height, are slated to make up the Crimson card...
...Josef explained that lack of food isn't the only reason for the miners' lethargy: "It's also because we don't really care. Right now we get more to eat if we mine more, but the coal itself doesn't do us any good. Part of it is exported to Lord knows where, and what should go to our industry doesn't-we're not allowed to produce all the things we need. Where is the stuff to rebuild our homes? Where are the clothes I need for myself and my wife...
Bacon & Bituminous. One of the Hannover Mine's two directors, blond, youthful Mining Engineer Erich Ricken, who knows most of his men by their first names, gives this simple picture of the Ruhr coal production problem: "There are 300,000 miners in the Ruhr. What they need more than anything else is fats. Give each of them an extra pound of bacon every week. You would need 600 tons of bacon monthly. Figuring 25 working days, that means 24 tons of bacon per day. To pay for 24 tons of bacon every day you'd need...
...Harvard Lampoon; he is proud of the fact that he got it (not the Crimson, as the story said) out of the red. When he went home to San Francisco (the story tactfully ignored his expulsion from Harvard*), his father offered him "everything from the fabulous Homestake Mine to the baronial Mexican ranch." No, said Willie, all he wanted was the broken-down (circ. 5,000) Examiner, which Senator George Hearst had taken in on a $100,000 bad debt...