Word: minerally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rockefeller (John D.'s grandnephew). Out at the kennels, which even have an imitation red water hydrant to entertain the Bedlingtons, the grand champion answers to "Timmie." Only two years old next month, he was handled in the ring by Anthony Neary, a square-beamed Bedlington coal miner who helped introduce the breed to U.S. shows 18 years...
...process was comparatively painless for the team, which begins to shape up now as a threat in the Eastern League struggle. Ted Norris added another feather to his well-plumed cap by cracking the Annapolis pool record for the 440, as he led teammate Larry Miner home in 4:54.5, nine-tenths of a second under the old record...
...triumphal tour of the nation, the Senator does practically everything an unwilling aspirant can do, except milk a cow. In Virginia he uses a mushmouf accent; in Texas he lines it with rawhide. In a union hall, wearing a miner's cap, he shouts for an eight-day wage, a two-day week; at a discreet banquet for bankers, he whispers for a two-day wage, an eight-day week. Elsewhere, discussing the problems of inflation and deflation, he takes his stand fearlessly, without compromise, "For Flation." He also picks up an honorary Ph.D. from the Edgar L. Eubanks...
...Wales, Coal Miner Edward Green-slade had set a record by cutting 145 tons of coal at the rate of 25 tons a shift, only to be beaten by Miner Edward Maybank, who cut an average of 25¾ tons a shift. The individual efforts of many another miner had swelled Britain's weekly coal production to 4,298,700 tons, the highest since August 1940. (Low point: 1,587,700 tons in August 1943). The mine modernization program was still too young to show big results, but it promised even higher production figures for the future. In Lancashire...
...annual rate of 14,174,000 tons, was higher than in any previous November on record. A Nottinghamshire shawl-making firm using century-old handlooms had increased its export production by 150%. "We just decided to work longer hours to make more shawls," explained 76-year-old ex-Miner Johnny Lester. And thanks to the efforts of others like Johnny, national production of cotton and rayon yarns has risen higher (17,940,000 pounds in one week) than at any time since...