Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such prices might make sense if the state had water enough to turn its acres of desert into residential lots of sunshine. But the Phoenix area alone is already using more water than its reservoirs collect, has to "mine" 1,300,000 acre feet of water annually out of its lowered underground water table. Though the new residential areas use only one-third as much water as the crops they replace, the further spread of homes into the desert will leave a water problem that can be solved only by wresting more of the Colorado River away from California (which...
Afraid that they were being eased out of their jobs in a played-out lignite mine near Spoleto, 90 miners went on a sitdown strike 1,300 ft. underground. They got friends to send down bedding. Officials of their Communist-run union organized relays to send down food and wine. The strikers played cards, chatted or took long walks in the eerily echoing galleries...
...militant or desperate men could survive, and soon about one-third of the strikers, worried about their families or tired of living like moles, got out by emergency exits. Wives and children of the remaining strikers gathered at the pithead to talk by phone to their men below on Mine Level 13. Spoleto's Archbishop Raffaele Mario Radossi, using the same phone, implored the strikers to surface and negotiate. Worried company officials struggled to keep the pumps operating and the ventilating system working so that the men would not fall victim to methane gas. The workers counted on attracting...
With both its menfolks' and its womenfolks' jobs in the balance, Morgnano's Communist mayor appealed to Rome for relief to both mine and mill. The mill was obsolete and the mine uneconomic, but the pressure worked. The mill agreed to reduce the layoffs to 255 and spread these ottt-ever eleven months. The mine (run by a government-owned corporation) promised to avoid any actual firings, transfer men to other jobs as available...
After the incident, San Ildefonso's Father Narciso Seguer wrote to Galinsoga, tactfully suggested that the culprit must have been an impostor using Galinsoga's card. Replied Galinsoga: "The card is mine. To go to church in a Spanish city where one hears, apart from Latin, a language that a Spaniard has no obligation to understand appears absurd...