Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couples were once the closest of friends. Buzz Cole, a truck driver for over 13 years at the Phelps Dodge Corp. copper mine in Morenci, Ariz., and his wife Beverly live in a small frame house on one side of Linden Street. On the other side, in a mirror-image home, are Joe Imrich, a crusher operator at the mine, and his wife Lolita. Beverly and Lolita were on the same bowling team and shared coffee every morning after their husbands left for work. For five years, the families, both with teen-age children, socialized and vacationed together and helped...
Ordinarily, the rugged mountain towns of Morenci and Clifton are close-knit in an almost feudal way, drawn together by their common employer. Morenci (pop. 2,700), dominated by the huge white pit of the copper mine and the two monster smokestacks of the smelter, is the archetypal company town. Phelps Dodge, which has enjoyed a reputation as a generous employer, owns the water and electric utilities, the county hospital, the gas station, the motel, the bowling alley, the high school and a new Spanish-style shopping center featuring the Phelps Dodge Mercantile Co. (easy credit terms). Workers earn...
...Interior Secretary James Watt has been trying to sell frights to mine on federally controlled land. Environmentalists and some Western Governors and Democrats contend he will spur the mining of coal that the nation does not now need, at giveaway prices. On Aug. 3, a House committee voted to order Watt not to hold a sale of mining rights scheduled for last week. Under federal law, its vote should have been controlling. But the Supreme Court in June declared unconstitutional the procedure under which Congress delegates authority to the Executive Branch to perform certain acts while reserving the option...
...determination to plunge ahead with the coal-lease sales program is raising a political storm; in the West, the disposition of the enormous amounts of coal that lie under federal land is an emotional issue. Ironically, though, when Watt last week put up for sale the rights to mine land containing 543 million tons of coal, primarily in North Dakota, he received bids covering only 115 million tons...
...been hung from a stable rafter for days, suspended by his arms tied behind him, while Red Guards beat him with fists, sticks, irons. Finally his own peasants rescued him. In Chongqing, I spoke to the vice mayor, old beyond his years. He was sent down to an iron mine where he worked underground for three years...