Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home eating my junior food," said K. C. Adams, editor of the Mine Workers Journal. "It's already chewed-lamb and vegetables, chopped liver and prunes and applesauce that looks like gunpowder." Mr. Adams has a delicate stomach. "I asked Lillie [Mrs. Adams] to fix me some tea. She made it out of one of those little tea balls." Mr. Adams made the motions of gently dipping a tea ball into a cup, " 'Lillie,' I said, 'this tea with no leaves won't do me no good. I need the leaves and a gypsy...
...worst blows a leader and his union had taken in the history of U.S. labor. In the case of John Lewis, who has ridden contemptuously over the Government, over the public, over his own labor colleagues and even over his own mine workers, the verdict was peculiarly appropriate. But the decision went beyond Lewis. It stirred up the tea leaves in all of organized labor...
Actually, compared with the living standard of other Germans, Josef's is a pampered lot. Besides receiving top rations, he can buy a lunch of vegetable soup with a little meat at the mine daily. If he fulfills his production quota, increased under a speedup bonus system introduced in January, Josef gets extra ration cards entitling him to buy a pound and a half of bacon, a pound of coffee, a half-pound of sugar, two bottles of schnapps and 100 cigarets, as well as some clothing and household goods. Other Germans in the Ruhr have not even been...
What about John L. Lewis? Indiana's Senator Homer E. Capehart wanted to know. Had everybody forgotten him? It was getting close to March 31, which is the deadline on coal contracts. When would negotiations start between Lewis and the mine owners? When would the mines be returned to private ownership? The Senator wrote Lewis and Interior Secretary Krug...
While scratching his beard in a foxhole one day, Infantryman Al Daniels thought up the idea as a gag. When he came home, U.S. cosmetic peddlers, well aware of the faint line between a gag and a gold mine, would not let him forget it. So Daniels Shadow Proof Inc. of Boston last week invaded the $50,000,000-a-year men's toiletries market with a carnation-scented, flesh-colored paste which will camouflage 5 o'clock shadow and banish that unshaven look. At Manhattan's Macy's, one excited employee hailed...