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...Appalachian Conference of operators (TIME, April 12). But Marshall Musick, a frail, sad-eyed union organizer whose .home was riddled with bullets one night last February, killing his son and seriously wounding his wife, told the Committee about the strings to that. Harlan miners, said he, average about $75 per month. Of this, 15% is deducted for rent on company-owned houses, fees to company-hired physicians, contributions to company burial funds. After an additional sum has been deducted to settle his accounts at high-priced company stores, the miner gets the balance in scrip good only at those stores...
...fatherly Actor Kane, to Author Wolfson, to Director Worthington Miner, to Producer Wilson (on his own for the first time without Noel Coward) and to a large, excellent and largely indistinguishable cast went critical acclaim unusual for the spring or any other part of the season...
...meeting of the fencing team yesterday, Edwin S. Skinner '38, of North Wales. Pennsylvania, was elected Varsity captain for 1937-38. He competed against Yale last year, and won his miner...
Zinc. A zinc as well as a lead miner is President Crane, St. Joe's zinc output last year being 26,000 tons. Biggest U. S. independent zinc producer is New Jersey Zinc Co., a conservative old concern which publishes few figures, always makes money, has paid dividends without interruption since the Century's turn and actually has its principal mines in New Jersey. Output of the New Jersey mines at present is probably close to 100,000 tons annually. Zinc is also produced by copper miners, partly for the use of brass-making affiliates. In boom times...
...every comrade knows, Stakhanov was an obscure coal miner who persuaded three other miners to join with him in working as a gang to use their pneumatic drill more efficiently and thus increase production per man. Stakhanov was taken to Moscow, feted by Stalin, loaded with all sorts of presents, including a phonograph with the record Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, and ever since the whole laboring mass of the Soviet Union has been urged, exhorted, tempted and commanded to emulate Stakhanov. Sluggards who do not want to speed up their work as Stakhanov did, have...