Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deficiencies of ordinary telescopes for Coronal photography. The Lyot coronograph, installed at Climax in 1940, was the first in the Western Hemisphere and the third in the world. Located just below the timber line on the edge of a community of houses maintained by the Climax Molybdenum Company for mine employees, the observatory is directly on the Continental Divide and the peak of the observatory roof, which has a unique conical shape to prevent snow gathering, forms the water shed between the Atlantic and the Pacific...
Nobody on the American scene is as obnoxious to so many people as John Lewis. He is a dictator in his own union and hated by large parts of it, and he is a scrofulous nuisance to the public at large. But the members of the United Mine Workers gained unionism in generations of bitter and bloody strikes, and they will follow even John L. through the seven circles of hell rather than let anybody break...
...basic reasons for dissatisfaction among the miners lie in the fact that the coal industry is not a going concern in this country. In the marginal and submarginal mines, men work irregularly and only two or three times a week; the casualties in mine accidents are appalling, because the industry does not have the money to modernize and make safe the places where the men work. Most of the miners live on company property in little, dirty towns and have contact with the outside world only through their union; they have no essential security in job or home. Under present...
...having ice, groceries and milk delivered. They hired two lawyers. But at week's end the going began to get tough. Six of the veterans were arrested for trespassing. Said their leader, ex-Pfc. Paul Principato, as he was booked by the cops: "Who wants that medal of mine? They can have...
...general method, as in most syntheses, was to break down natural penicillin-G into simpler compounds which could be made artificially, then try to make these combine into penicillin. Dr. du Vigneaud and his associates started (as others had before them) with two decomposition products-dextro-penicilla-mine hydrochloride and 2-benzyl-4-meth-oxymethylene-5(4)-oxazolone. Over & over again they made them combine under different conditions...