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Under the continued pounding, Krug cracked. He gave the miner's chieftain an almost unbelievable opportunity to extend his "memorial holiday." He asked the U.M.W. to submit the names of "any other mines which the [union] considered so hazardous as to require closing. . . ." Lewis's triumphant answer: all but two of the 2,531 U.S. coal mines operated by the Government were unsafe and would therefore be shut down...
...miners, and even John L. Lewis, who was once a miner himself, knew that Bayless was right. In coal mining there is no absolute safety. Improvements have been made over the years, but the death rate is still high. Last year 974 miners died in rock falls and other accidents-most of them unnoticed beyond their home-town papers-compared with...
...Miner's jargon for a flameless explosion...
Today, however, the Crimson will emerge from its Hotel Taft billets enmasse in the teeth of the first seeded Bulldogs. Captain John Watkins will be taking the gun in the 100 sprint, Jerry Gorman, Forbes Norris, and Larry Miner in the quarter mile, and Chuck Hoelzer in the 200-yard butterfly...
...bottom of a black hole, deeper than twice the height of the Empire State Building, a coal miner named Josef earned his daily bread this difficult winter. Fifteen European countries, including Germany, have a grim interest in Josef, for their economic revival is closely tied to the amount of coal which he and some 300,000 other miners win from the rich Ruhr mines. In the dust-choked gloom of the pit face TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth talked with Josef, trying to learn why the miners are producing only half as much as before...