Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman had started the week prosaically, greeting 21 Democratic candidates who had come to the White House for his blessing. "The first business of mine, of course," he said, "is being President of the United States, and working for all of the people of the country. My second business is to head the Democratic Party and I think the Democratic Party is the only party that has ever worked for all the people of the United States...
...committee had nothing against women, as such. It just wanted to know how much taxpayers' money shipbuilders had lavished on honorarious baubles. The million-dollar tally sheet, 130 pages long, did not tell who paid the bill. But the faces that launched 5,500 ships were a gold mine for gossipers...
...powerful National Union of Mine Workers gave the Labor Government another bad turn last week when it elected Arthur Horner as its General Secretary. Horner is a Communist. But so well do the miners like him that they elected Horner only three months after they had flatly rejected affiliation with the Communist Party. Even Ernie Bevin and Herbert Morrison were prepared to admit that Horner was an efficient union leader and a nice chap. But, they fretted, "we wish he wasn't a Communist...
...showed the statistical deceptions practiced by harassed managers to meet the stiff goals of the new Five-Year Plan. The Stalinogorsk Coal Trust had "never fulfilled its plan." But its figures for the last three days of July were inflated to make up the month's quota. A mine that never produced more than 150 tons of coal a day suddenly reported a 544-ton output...
...horse & buggy he got around to miners' huts and farmers' sickbeds. He went down mine shafts after many a mining accident, delivered three generations of babies, as often as not without being paid. When a Caesarean seemed indicated, Dr. Porter, no surgeon, did the best he could without operating. When women standing around during a tough birth got hysterical, Dr. Porter shouted: "Shut up or I'll throw the whole goddamned bunch of you into the road." During one delivery of a young mother with gonorrhea, he picked up an infection, lost...