Word: minerally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Miner Cameron was back with the Dominion Coal Co., Ltd., at New Waterford, N.S. He explained...
...years Raymond Cameron, 39, had dug coal in Cape Breton's pits. Last February, along with 13,000 other Maritime miners, he went on strike for more pay. Out of the 99-day strike, the miners got a basic $1-a-day pay boost, bringing the day's average to $12. But Miner Cameron was not satisfied with working conditions...
...Chicago, Judge Elmer J. Schnackenberg listened attentively to Witness Andrew Jackson, while across the hall Judge Julius H. Miner explained why he couldn't hear Christopher Columbus Spenson's case right away: first he had to handle legal matters involving George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant and Calvin Coolidge...
Gold was off by 60%. The great Alaska Juneau lode mine was closed. But other forms of gold digging throve. Gold dredges nosed along the pay streak in valleys near Fairbanks. And many an Arctic placer miner would go it with bulldozer and sluice box, gambling for a stake through weeks of mud, mosquitoes and midnight...
...stretched his father's money by working at odd jobs. Besides working in Gammon's Restaurant on Pittsburgh's Liberty Avenue and as a sparring partner for one of the thumb-poking Zivic brothers, he once unwittingly signed on as a coal miner, found himself strikebreaking. He still thinks the U.S. "a country of opportunities for ambitious, energetic young people...