Word: mineralization
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...Apostolic See." Yuk. Chancellor Erhard, someone announced, admiringly changed the name of Unter den Linden to Unter den Lyndon. Hah, hah, jawohl Within the Republican Party there is a "strong underground movement" for Richard Nixon (onto the screen popped an old news photo of Nixon wearing a coal miner's headlamp...
...into the realm of commerce. They spot diseased trees in a lumber company's forest, take a quick inventory of grapes while they are still on the vine, measure the size of a coal stockpile for a utility company and point to the best spot for a coal miner to dig in. The Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio even takes aerial-type shots of a steer, then analyzes the animal's "hills and valleys" to get an accurate reading of how much meat is on his bones...
...miner's disease caused by inhaling very fine silicate or quartz dust...
Bolivian tin miners are tough and violent men. Last month a gang of miners with a vague and perhaps imaginary grievance dragged a member of the legislature from his house, strapped a stick of dynamite to his body, and blasted him to bits. When his pregnant wife came running out of the house waving a white handkerchief, a miner shot her to death...
...went into the pits like his father and grandfather before him. That he became a Marxist is not surprising. It was hard not to have hard feelings about the Tredegar Iron & Coal Co. One early strike eloquently led by young Nye was called because the company had docked a miner a day's pay: the idle fellow had taken off part of the working day to convey home the body of a comrade killed working down the pit. So the world was black and white for young Nye Bevan as he became the miners' voice, first...