Word: miners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bought the daily Manhattan Mercury. Worked his way at Kansas State College in Manhattan, where he compiled a respectable scholastic average, but failed to graduate because he rebelled against the science-heavy required curriculum. Undisputed highlight of his college career: a scene in a student production of Chip the Miner's Daughter, where, as the hero, he shouted: "What ho! The villain steals the gold!" then was slugged by the villain with a bag filled with nuts, bolts and nails. Surgeons had to repair his fractured skull by installing a metal plate above his right eye. Met and married...
...Communists have systematically stripped businesses while holding their managers virtual prisoners. Last week the last of hundreds of U.S. businessmen, who once did a $1 billion business in China, was safely in Hong Kong with a tale of seven years of subtle commercial torture. His name: Charles S. Miner, 49, manager of a big auto, newspaper, real-estate and insurance business in China for Manhattan's C. V.Starr and Co. His company's losses totaled nearly $5,000,000 before the Reds were satisfied. Said Miner: "Our companies were wrung dry like dishrags until we had lost everything...
...group built its American-Asiatic Underwriters into Asia's biggest insurance operation, with more than half of China's total business; it accumulated large real-estate holdings, opened Studebaker and Buick-Vauxhall agencies, published Shanghai's English-language Evening Post & Mercury. When Charles S. Miner took over in 1948, the company was doing a highly successful business and hoped it could continue under the. Communists. Starr's Evening Post even fell for the line that the Reds were really "agrarian democrats" without binding ties to Moscow, went so far as to welcome Mao Tse-tung...
...friends of the then Dean, Leroy M.S. Miner D.M.D. '40, who saw him going out with the old School, rallied to save him. "You're at the wrong meeting," the chairman told Maloney. "You should be at the Association of Medical Schools meeting." Maloney discovered that a special session was scheduled specifically to turn down Harvard, and he withdrew the application...
...THOUSAND times a day. U.S. jukeboxes moaned out Sixteen Tons, a Tin Pan Alley folk song about a coal miner who is soul-deep in debt to his employer. The song landed with a sixteen-ton impact because of its tootling orchestration and Tennessee Ernie Ford's richly lugubrious style. To the jukebox generation the words were all but meaningless. Yet, as late as the 1920s, the ballad's bitter plaint was a real-life refrain to millions of U.S. workers from Georgia's green-roofed cotton villages to Oregon's bleak lumber settlements. Those workers...