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Word: miners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spelunkers had an electric winch and 1,300 feet of steel cable in the core of which was embedded a telephone wire. Loubens went down first. He wore water-resistant coveralls, a miner's head lamp, strong cleated boots, and a crash helmet for protection against falling rocks. It took him 90 minutes to get down, dangling in parachute harness, spinning round & round, but when he touched bottom he was farther down than the Eiffel Tower is up. Three other spelunkers followed him. They established a camp in the big vault, perhaps 900 feet long, half as wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cave Crazy | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...Second Shift. Two months ago the Montecatini Co., which runs the mine, put a notice on its bulletin board. "Meticulous research," it read, "has established that the mine, in effect, is exhausted." Some 860 of Cabernardi's 1,000 miners would have to be laid off permanently. "Unjust," cried Communist Miner Gino Santorelli. "Capitalistic maneuvers! The company must carry out more intelligent research." Father Gino Tomaselli, Cabernardi's parish priest, issued a quiet demurrer. "I am convinced," he told his parishioners, "that Montecatini has carried out all possible research. Unfortunately, very little of the mineral is left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Staydown | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...Stale Shaft. As Communist labor leaders throughout Italy tried to whip the miners' cause into a general strike, other villagers in Cabernardi became disillusioned. "The workers," declared one Demo-Christian union official, "are not staying down of their own free will. It is a result of Communist pressure, making a political issue of an economic problem." Last week, as an old miner scrawled the number 34 on the calendar at the shaft head, the company ordered two of the four pumps feeding air into the mine cut off. Wine, liquor and cigarettes were removed from the food baskets going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Staydown | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

Invalids Assay High. The word spread through the mining country, and so many visitors arrived at the Free Enterprise that they got in the way of the miners who were trying to find out whether its uranium veins were worth working. Wade V. Lewis, an experienced hard-rock miner and president of the company that owns the Free Enterprise, soon discovered that the visiting invalids assayed higher than anything in the mine: every carload was a pay-lode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mind, Body & Mines | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

Labor took the hint. "Taft-Hartley will not manufacture steel," said onetime miner Phil Murray, paraphrasing the old mine union cry against the militia: "You can't dig coal with bayonets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: They Can't Tell Harry | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

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