Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years the huge (1,100,000 members) United Steelworkers of America (A.F.L.-C.I.O.) and the small (40,000) but noisy International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Independent) have been deadly enemies. The Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union goes back to the turn of the century and a 1905 hookup with the radical left's "Wobbly" movement and its leader, William ("Big Bill") Haywood. In 1917, Haywood jumped a $20,000 bond and fled to Russia rather than face charges of violating the Espionage Act. Half his ashes now rest in the Krem lin Wall, the other...
...however, the two old rivals have signed a mutual assistance pact, agreeing to observe each other's contracts and to quit raiding; meanwhile, talks leading toward complete merger, as the United Steelworkers of America, would go on. Why? And why now? Said a Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers official: "Everywhere you look, unions are finding it necessary to get together and present a united front against ever bigger financial and management empires...
...Johannesburg dusk, golden with light reflected from the mine dumps surrounding the city, the streets were jammed with well-dressed crowds on their way to the bioscope (movies), restaurants, cafés and espresso bars. Giant construction cranes hovered over the beginnings of three new skyscrapers, the tallest of which will have 51 floors. The Johannesburg stock exchange hit a new high, and the city was in the throes of a water shortage, limiting the hours that home owners could water their lawns...
...hooligans." Among the first victims of a tough new law against rowdy behavior were four tipplers who had arrived high as a kite at a soccer stadium during a match. They were fined on the spot, and their sentences were announced over the stadium loudspeaker. In another incident, a mine manager drew two months' "corrective labor" for hooliganism in a restaurant. In jail he got cooked meals only every other day, on alternate days only bread, salt and water. As if that was not indignity enough, his head was shaved...
...tiny State Street office by Lawyer John Clarke Lee and his cousin, Boston Merchant George Higginson, Lee Higginson over the years financed the development of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and other Western railroads, built several Boston fortunes by developing the fabulous Calumet & Hecla Copper Mine in Michigan. The firm helped put together General Electric in 1892, led the financing of the struggling General Motors...