Word: mineral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Lewis R. ("Hack") Wilson, 48, colorful, brawling onetime National League home-run king (in 1930 he hit 56, four short of Ruth's record); in Baltimore. An ex-coal miner, Wilson joined the New York Giants in 1923, hit his peak from 1926 to 1931 with the Chicago Cubs, finally drank his way out of the big leagues, ended up broke...
...Will Stay." A more common attitude was expressed by a Tangshan miner in blue dungarees, driving a donkey cart heaped with coal. "My life is now bitter," he said. "For ten shifts I get a bag of flour. For 20 shifts I get a ration of coal." Would he flee if the Reds came? The miner snorted. "Flee? Flee where? To America?" A crowd of workmen chorused their agreement. "Nothing could be much worse than our life now," said one. "We will stay...
...years ago, Charlie Hudder led a Crimson aquatic squad to its most recent undefeated season. This winter, Captain Jerry Gorman may pull off the same stunt. Backed by all of last year's team except Larry Miner and Hank Arthur in the 440 and Milt Busby in the 100-yd. freestyle, his squad may hit clear water all season...
ROBERT L. COFFEY JR., 30, is a onetime coal miner. He resigned his Air Force lieutenant-colonelcy and his post as air attache at the U.S. Embassy in Chile to run for office in a traditionally Republican district of western Pennsylvania. With little money or organization, but with labor's help in ringing doorbells, curly-haired Bob Coffey, a veteran of 97 fighter combat flights in Europe, strafed five-term Congressman Harve Tibbott's isolationist record. Coffey is one of eleven new Democratic Congressmen from Pennsylvania ; President Truman had campaigned in all but one of their districts...
...dream of a continuous mechanical miner-one that will perform the slow, costly and dangerous operations still necessary in even the most mechanized mines -is not new. Since war's end at least six companies have secretly developed models. Joy Manufacturing Co. actually went so far as to announce the results of a private test of one (TIME, April 5). But Sunnyhill's mechanical mole-the "Colmol"-was the first to back up its claims with a public demonstration...