Word: mineral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pressure. I talked with Oskar Kochne, a blue-eyed, 21-year-old veteran of the Soviet zone's uranium mines. He was still wearing his dark blue miner's cap with its little aluminum shield of crossed hammers. Oskar was taken by the Russians almost two years ago, as he was traveling toward East Prussia to rejoin his family. The Reds sent him to the mining camp at Aue. He has worked there since, rising at 1:30 every morning, traveling two hours by rail to the closely guarded mines, working until 1 in the afternoon...
Babe Ruth died, and true grief dropped into public bathos; a coal miner's daughter nicknamed "Bobo" married into the Rockefeller clan; Manhattan's nickel subway fare went to a dime; the year's most popular book on human behavior was by a zoologist named Kinsey...
...medals, titles and uniforms never reached the peak it has in the proletariat's promised land. On the kolkhozy (collective farms), a visitor is apt to meet a Znatnaya Doyarka (Distinguished Cow Milking Woman). One of the latest additions to the new Soviet aristocracy is Honorable Coal Miner E. P. Baryshnikov, whose picture (see cut) was published in a recent issue of Ogonek (Small Flame...
Baryshnikov wears his new badge on the right of his miner's dress uniform, opposite his "Order of Lenin" (for outstanding production achievements), his "Medal for Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War," and two other medals. He knows the miner's medal was not given to him without a purpose. Recently, a Pravda editorial warned, "Stalin's solicitude for the miner must be responded to in deed...
...Mathies Mine, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. put to work last week a machine that set up the rumble of revolution in coal mining. In 60 seconds, the "Continuous Miner" of the Joy Manufacturing Co. (TIME, April 5) ripped two tons of coal off the pitface and loaded it into a shuttle train...