Word: miner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take for granted the interdependence ... of the wheat farmer of the Dakotas, the cotton grower of the Carolinas or the market gardener of California [with] the miner in Pennsylvania and the manufacturer in New York. . . . The interdependence of the world economy is less apparent. But it is quite as real...
...Miners liked the treatment so well that some drove 40 miles a day to get it. They reported immediate relief from the dry, hacking cough characteristic of silicosis. But whether aluminum dust will vanquish silica dust permanently, neither doctor nor miner could yet say. Nor had they yet found out whether it prevents tuberculosis, which often ends the silicosis sufferer's life...
...diamond drills and other equipment at a cost of 73? a pound for shipping, spent $10 million just prospecting. Last May its chief geologist, Dr. J. A. Retty, cautiously reported progress: nine finds of high-grade iron ore bodies in Labrador, 15 in Ungava. Said the trade journal Northern Miner: "The most important iron ore discovery in America since the finding of the Mesabi range...
...House of Commons, miner M.P. after miner M.P. rose to develop the Lawther theme. Tories who had fought the rising tide for years tried again to stem it. Laborite Hugh Dalton taunted them: "You haven't got your heart in it; there was no punch...
Already Labor's Minister of Fuel and Power, Emanuel Shinwell, onetime tailor, speaking for the new mine boss, the Government, had warned of "drastic action" against wildcat strikes. Said he to Scotland's pitmen: "Nationalization is not intended primarily to benefit the miner. There is the coal consumer to be considered, the interests of the nation, our export trade and all that...