Word: minerally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...success quickly in the person of a little old man with a racking cough. Aléman first saw him under the Caballito monument at the head of the Paseo de la Reforma, and took him for a beggar. But the man refused money and said he was a miner far gone with tuberculosis. Aléman questioned him, took him home, persuaded him to see a doctor. The verdict: not TB, but silicosis. In the name of the old man, Pedro Aguayo, Aléman filed suit against the mining company...
Under the continued pounding, Krug cracked. He gave the miner's chieftain an almost unbelievable opportunity to extend his "memorial holiday." He asked the U.M.W. to submit the names of "any other mines which the [union] considered so hazardous as to require closing. . . ." Lewis's triumphant answer: all but two of the 2,531 U.S. coal mines operated by the Government were unsafe and would therefore be shut down...
...miners, and even John L. Lewis, who was once a miner himself, knew that Bayless was right. In coal mining there is no absolute safety. Improvements have been made over the years, but the death rate is still high. Last year 974 miners died in rock falls and other accidents-most of them unnoticed beyond their home-town papers-compared with...
...Miner's jargon for a flameless explosion...
Today, however, the Crimson will emerge from its Hotel Taft billets enmasse in the teeth of the first seeded Bulldogs. Captain John Watkins will be taking the gun in the 100 sprint, Jerry Gorman, Forbes Norris, and Larry Miner in the quarter mile, and Chuck Hoelzer in the 200-yard butterfly...