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Checkup Below Ground. In the Southern Illinois fields, New Orient No. 2, operated by the Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co., was known as a safe mine. It had killed men in explosions before, but relatively small accidents, in the philosophy of the miner, are inevitable. It was modern, mechanized, efficient -and huge: the biggest shaft coal mine in the world. Its twelve miles of tunnels produced record yields of bituminous coal: 15,385 tons in one eight-hour shift...
Imaginative publicity agents have always portrayed Lana as the gifted daughter of a prosperous Idaho mining engineer. The truth of the matter, says Lana bravely, is that Father Turner was a ne'er-do-well miner and part-time bootlegger, "we were poor and harassed, and no one thought I had talent." In 1927, when Lana was six, the family packed up and migrated to San Francisco, where John Turner became a stevedore. One night he got into a crap game, cleaned up, headed home with his winnings. Next morning he was found bludgeoned to death on a street...
...crippling civilian and defense production. And no one has set a higher target than the steelmakers' own Joe Magarac: the $2,829,000,000 U.S. Steel Corp., sired by J. P. Morgan the Elder, weaned by Judge Elbert Gary, and now, in its maturity, presided over by a miner's son from Pigeon Run, Ohio, named Benjamin Franklin Fairless...
...parties in London. Candidates must be "adopted" by local party associations, but this is usually a mere formality. Unlike U.S. Congressmen, who make much of their being home-town boys, British M.P.s need not live in the constituencies they represent, and usually don't. Last week a Welsh miner was Labor's candidate in an English farming constituency (he was trounced); Sir David Robertson, a London businessman, won a seat in a remote Scots Highland constituency. Even Winston Churchill, who is seldom seen in a kilt, represented a Scottish constituency from...
Born in Berlin in 1918, Wolpe (pronounced Volpay) grew up in Paris and was made stateless in 1934 when the Nazis revoked the citizenship of all German Jews living outside the Reich. He went to work as a coal miner at nineteen and later got a job on an Antwerp pier...