Word: minerally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pittsburgh (Universal) is a pretentious attempt to picture the coarseness, the turbulent vigor and the ambition of the big steel town. The film never gets beyond the coarseness. As a coal miner who marries the boss's daughter and by hook & crook becomes a boss himself, John Wayne is a thoroughly stereotyped Hollywood heel. Marlene Dietrich, cast as a rough diamond, looks like a phony one. For denouement, Pearl Harbor arrives to engulf all the characters in a spurious blaze of patriotism. Pittsburgh looks more like slag than good wartime metal...
...rumpus at Butte goes back to last month when the Army furloughed 4,000 soldier miners in an effort to ease the terrific shortage of labor in the nonferrous mines. In Utah a few of the new recruits were turned down because of physical disabilities which the Army had passed but which would not stand up in the face of stiff health requirements of the Utah mines. But to Butte were assigned 30-odd physically healthy furloughed Negro soldiers who had only to meet the requirements of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local No. 1-so old it is known...
...less regal but more productive. She uses a ramshackle, ghost-town U.S. post office as headquarters, tears between her three mountain mines in a secondhand $55 down-payment Ford, wears dirty trousers and wildly striped, tight-fitting sweaters (see cut), bosses her 45 employes like a regular miner. She also produces chrome ore. Her Joe River mine turns out 20 tons every day. Last week she opened her Ladd mine, put more steam behind construction at the McGuffy mine. Thus her production soon will be much higher, although she has already sold 3,200 tons to the Government-20% more...
...bonanza was prospected-and is mostly owned-by Canada's veteran gold miner, Dome Mines Ltd. Engineers of Dome stumbled on the deposit last August when they were frantically looking for something to replace moribund gold digging. Dome will spend $250,000 for new facilities, hopes to mine over 2,000,000 Ib. of the stuff annually-roughly 6% of world production and enough to supply practically all Canadian steel mills. To Dome this is a financial break: molybdenum sells for about 80? a Ib. At peak output the company should gross over $1,600,000 a year...
...lady friend, Tacey Cromwell, runs the establishment. But after Nugget turns up Tacey moves to the copper town of Bisbee, Ariz., where she hopes to leave her "sporting" life behind her, to marry Gaye and make a home for Nugget. The family circle is completed when a miner is killed and his wildcat daughter, Seely, is taken in by Tacey...