Word: miner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of this prevented Los Angeles' hundreds of publicity-minded folk from gleefully using the smog for their own purposes. Singer Jo Stafford arrived in town carrying two caged canaries, cracked: "It's an old miner's trick; if the canaries die I go back to New York...
Despite all the suffering, John Lewis was still king of the coal miners. "All we got, we owe to him," said a miner with finality. "Twenty years ago we worked 20 hours for $2; now we get $15 for eight, that's what." But the king, it was plain, was no longer above timid, hesitant reproach. It wasn't too safe to criticize him openly: the old men didn't dare risk being blackballed by the union; they were too near pension time. And a coal miner's wife in Cinderella, W. Va., who wrote...
Disillusionment spread through the camp: many a man had gambled his season's savings on the stampede, hardly knowing why. The miners demanded that the original nuggets be sent to Fairbanks to be tested. Next day a plane brought copies of the Fairbanks News-Miner with a sad story. All but two of the nuggets were brass. And the two (total worth: $2) were worn, as if they had been carried for a long time in a poke or pocket...
Rowe says that the 3½-years he spent doing the illustrations "could hardly be called work. The project was alive." A native of Salt Lake City, Guy Rowe was a miner, cowhand, mechanic, acrobat, lumberjack and bill collector before he became an artist. His introduction to art came via a vaudeville act in which he drew chalk portraits of people in the audience on a blackboard. He went to art school and became a commercial artist-a field in which he is remembered for the still life portraits he did in the Jello ads. In 1943 he began doing...
...British Minister of Health "Nye" Bevan went down into the pits when he was 13, and was a miner for eight years...