Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proceedings drew toward a 4:10 P.M. close, Assistant Attorney General John F. Sonnett was arguing that Federal District Court was right in slapping the $3,510,000 contempt fines on Lewis and the United Mine Workers...
...Near Haifa, a British Bren gun carrier struck a road mine, turned over. Casualties: one British officer, three enlisted men, all killed...
...religion.' Why should I? I don't feel a sinner, and, anyway, you haven't seen our parson. He isn't even a man. So far as I can see, the churches seem to have plenty of troubles of their own without bothering them with mine. Squabbling and preaching are all they're good for, and I can get along without either, thank...
...distance trains were running three to four hours late because the coal supply was irregular and of poor quality. In Sheffield 20,000 steelworkers had an enforced six-day Christmas holiday while firms scraped together enough coal to carry on. Day after the holidays, absenteeism reached 80% in one mine. But 95% of the men showed up that night to collect their pay. The hum of industry was turning everywhere into a mournful wail: "We have only three days' stock of coal in hand...
...largest blasts which has been recorded, that of 211,700 lbs. of dynamite at the Volunteer Mine, Mich., produced a maximum movement in a building a quarter of a mile away of only 52 thousandths of an inch...