Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ambassadorship came last week, Lew Douglas was in Phoenix which he still calls home. His family roots are deep in Arizona's arid soil. His grandfather left Scotland and a career as a scholar to go prospecting, and hit the jackpot with the fabulous Copper Queen mine at Bisbee. His father, "Rawhide Jim" Douglas, discovered the U.V.X. mine...
Earlier in the day, Wirtz told newsmen that the Supreme Court decision against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers had almost no significance beyond the specific legal facts involved. He admitted, however, that the State Courts might take advantage of the apparent right to issue injunctions while they decided whether a strike was legal...
...well-wishers. But some 5,000 ideas were promising enough to be turned over to the armed services or the OSS. About 150 of these went into actual production; some 600 more are still in the testing stage. Some of the most successful: ¶The Army's portable mine detector, invented by a Miami electrician to help a neighbor find buried pirate gold. ¶A tank-driven mine detonator. ¶ A long-lasting walkie-talkie battery for use in the tropics...
...were more politically practical reasons why Shinwell would not be ousted from the Cabinet now. He was still extremely popular with the miners; if he were axed, there might be trouble in the pits. A measure of that factor came last week in a by-election in the Yorkshire mine area of Normanton. There the Labor candidate got 80% of the total vote, a drop of only 4% from last year's general election...
...weeks' strike truce in the Maritime coal industry had brought miners and owners no closer. So last week 13,500 members of the United Mine Workers, District 26, walked out of the mines for a second time, and shut down 30% of Canada's coal industry...