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Last week Edwin Midgley, still in comfortable financial circumstances, drove up to the mine gate in his limousine and asked for his old job. Why? Said Miner Midgley: "I got bored...
...long time now I have meant to tell you about TIME'S only woman Senior Editor, Content Peckham. Our most recent inquiry about her is from Reader Charles D. Jones, placer miner, of Nome, Alaska, who wrote, in part...
...general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, tried to stop John L. Lewis with the Taft-Hartley Act. He went to court at the urging of the operators to get a court order against the three-day week. He got little thanks for it. As a West Virginia miner said: "Paper don't cut coal." Said Harry Truman: Denham is on his own. Said Robert Taft: "We didn't intend to give anyone the right to send people back to work-except when there's a national emergency-when no contract exists...
According to Harvey Hall, statistical engineer for the company, the use of oil was instituted last year for two reasons: (1) It is cheaper, on a dollar to BTU basis, than hard fuel: (2) "The company no longer is subjected to the whims of the miner's boss, John L. Lewis...
Besides Studio One (sponsored by Westinghouse), Miner also produces for CBS-TV The Goldbergs and a weekly children's show, Mr. I. Magination (Sun. 6:30 p.m.), which is a good deal better than its coy title. He sees TV as more closely related to the theater than to movies-"No film is as good as what we can do live on television." He is also confident that it will never descend to the low mental level of radio, because it can deal with adult problems, "and we don't get chichi or phony about them...