Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motive power he had short oars. A miner's lamp attached to his steel helmet, a searchlight on the boat's prow, an under water lamp hanging overside, all served by electric storage battery, were to supply light for close inspection of the tunnel walls. All electrical connections were shielded against sparking in the presence of sewer gas whose explosive power, Mr. Brown told reporters, was such that 36 cu. ft. of it was equal to one ton of dynamite. Last week Mr. Brown made a preliminary test of his equipment. He put on woolen basketball socks, sneakers...
Died. Sir Lionel Phillips, 81, South African gold miner, longtime head of Rand Mines, Ltd.; in Capetown, Union of South Africa. In 1896 he and the late John Hays Hammond were condemned to death for complicity in the abortive Jameson Raid, freed after paying fines of $125,000 apiece...
...leader of the largest U. S. labor union, the founder and chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, John Lewis was rapidly becoming a potent force in national as well as industrial affairs. Reporters in the Senate Press Gallery knew it fortnight ago when they saw the baleful glare Miner Lewis cast down on West Virginia's snaggle-toothed Rush Holt as that daring young man filibustered the substitute Guffey Coal Control Bill and possibly his own public career into the discard. Newshawks at the White House knew it when John Lewis stomped grimly into the President...
...states were dining & dancing at the 39th annual convention of the National Association of Retail Grocers in Dallas, Tex. last week, the most original grocer in the U. S. was preparing to give housewives another exciting thrill in Memphis, Tenn. Name of that grocer was Clarence Saunders, a onetime miner who likes to wrestle with financial problems all night in a bathtub of hot water. Name of his latest merchandising excitement: Keedoozle Corp. Cried Keedoozler Saunders: "Within a year I'll be worth $10,000,000. I won't have that much on hand...
...program is to let existent craft unions die on the vine, henceforth take into the A. F. of L. only industrial unions. A. F. of L.'s Executive Council issued last Janu ary the first of two orders commanding C. I. O. to disband. Miner Lewis impudently replied in March by offering to put up $500,000 if the A. F. of L. would put up $1,000,000 more to organize Steel along industrial lines. In effect, President Green agreed if Amalgamated would re spect craft organization. A set of illegitimate quintuplets could hardly have been more embarrassing...