Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston. Mr. Green declined. Then the President was reported willing to appoint anyone upon whom Mr. Green's federation could agree. Some time later, Mr. Green called at the White House not with one agreed-upon candidate, but with four candidates representing four groups: Miner Matthew Wohl, Metalworker John P. Frey, Plumber John R. Alpine, Carpenter William Hucheson. Apparently Mr. Green was emboldened by the President's consultations. He protested too strongly against the appointment of any man outside these four...
...uncle Alfred Victor du Pont left because "there wasn't room in the powder business at the time for all the family"), he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was an able athlete (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ib. at the age of 19). Beginning as a miner in Kentucky, he rose to be president and manager of several coal, iron & steel companies (among them Johnson Co., which became Lorain Steel Co., now a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp.). Later he developed many street railway lines. Having acquired a large fortune, he went to Wilmington, Del. intending...
...great rumbling and roar burst skyward. Suddenly the place swarmed with running human beings who converged on a wooden shed covering the shaft of Sunday Creek Coal Co.'s mine No. 6. Men, women & children hurried, hurried, their faces set, their eyes wide with foreknowledge that what every miner fears had happened. As they raced to the shaft-head, the earth shook beneath their feet again-another murderous, man-trapping, mind-shattering explosion. The racers were friends & relatives of 238 men in the mine. First to arrive manned the shaft elevators, went down into darkness. Tense minutes passed before...
...system commonly used today of flashing electric lights as a danger warning is not wholly successful. Busy miners often fail to notice the signals at once. Often an electric system will be disrupted by the very accident that occasions its use. The odor method is cheap, sure. Even the busiest miner will notice an unusually unpleasant smell...
Allegretto, ma non troppe Prelude Ernest Bloch Night Ernest Bloch Tokgaiaboo Ernest Bloch Quartet in A miner, Op. 51, No. 2 Brahma...