Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electricity than to ship coal-and when the coal industry itself began to talk of laying coal pipelines* to cut transporting costs, the railroads got busy improving their service. They modernized their equipment, studied the needs of the coal industry, began running fast, "unitized" freights of coal straight from mine to market, thus cutting much of the yard operations and interchanges that account for one-third the cost of all freight-car movements on eastern railroads. The eastern carriers only a month ago passed on their savings by cutting coal freight rates by a third, enabling coal companies to reduce...
PARIS, April 7--Many French coal miners are deeply dissatisfied with the settlement which ended their 35-day strike Wednesday. Although some striking miners held out through Friday for better terms, they gave up Friday night. In both the Northern mine fields and at Pas-de-Calais almost all miners were back at work underground Saturday...
...Victoria. B.C., Lester Pearson tried to shrug it off: "It's his rug, not mine." Diefenbaker was the one who brought the Bomarcs to Canada, Pearson recalled...
Chandler's campaign is vintage stuff. "The people love it," he has said. "Why, they eat it up." His crowds weep as he belts out a chorus of There's a Gold Mine in the Sky, nod reverently when he quotes the Bible, roar as he castigates Combs. Speaking of a $60,000 floral clock on the capitol grounds, Happy cries: "What time is it? Two petunias past the Jimson weed!" He promises that he will exempt food, medicine and clothing from the state's 3% sales tax without hurting the economy. When a woman asks...
...only other first-class passenger was an elderly Russian scientist of distinguished mien who was apparently so highly classified that he never exchanged a syllable with anyone during the trip. The first-class seat directly across from mine was partly filled with a bulky shape that I later learned-to my great discomfiture -was an extra fuel tank...