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...they would close only a third of the gap between what Britain sold abroad and what she bought abroad. The other side of the scale was British production. A higher production rate was supposed to close the other two-thirds of the import-export gap. If every coal miner worked five minutes more a day, for instance, he would produce as much in exports as the British Government hopes to save by the new gasoline restrictions. What were the chances that British production would rise...
...Magoun added that the group left Cambridge in the middle of June, and was expected to return late in August. Other members of the expedition are Harry C. King '49, Graham Mathews, a Law School student, and W. Laurence Miner '47. Miner, however, was believed to have dropped out before the actual climb because of ill health...
...Prisoner. Together with a red-haired Welsh miner called Charlie Jones, he organized the miners of Maerdy. When the police got after Horner again, he fled to Ireland, and under the name Jack O'Brien served in the Irish Republican Army. When he heard that his wife had borne him a son, he returned to Britain. The minute he came ashore, the police arrested him. During his term at Wormwood Scrubbs Prison, he was the most obstreperous prisoner the wardens ever knew...
...zone, a young man who made a name as a writer under Naziism works in a rock quarry and wonders how he can ever bring up three growing boys. In the British zone, a Ruhr miner washes his coal-streaked body in the daylight after eight hours' work underground, then sets out for the countryside to trade some clothes for bread. In the French zone a winegrower watches police break into his garage. They haul out ten cases of wine which he had set aside to sell to an American for cigarets...
Last week, Miner Cameron was back with the Dominion Coal Co., Ltd., at New Waterford, N.S. He explained...