Word: mineralization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
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...