Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mary Harriman Rumsey's Georgetown house. Nevertheless, she agreed to get her efficient Assistant Secretary Edward F. McGrady to look into the matter. Mr. McGrady found the conference between coal operators and miners had broken up and the operators had gone home. John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, and his assistants were busy preparing telegrams calling the strike. Mr. McGrady asked to have the strike-call canceled because the President did not want a strike. Miner Lewis grew huffy. If so, he demanded, why had not the Department of Labor told him that the President...
...became NRA's heartiest boosters. Just two years before they had been starving to death with copper at 4.7? per Ib. The code pegged the price at 9?. Early last year there was enough copper above ground to keep the U. S. supplied for 18 months with every mine closed. The code slapped severe restrictions on output and today the copper above ground would last only seven months. From the code authority coppermen were able to get better figures on demand & supply than they ever had before. Despite early confusion between Blue Eagle, non-Blue Eagle and export copper...
...young West Virginian, whose chief backer is United Mine Workers, whose chief occupation in his State legislature was to get taxes imposed on utilities and chain stores, had no reason to doubt that he would be seated. A Democratic majority of 41 in the Senate assured him of that. His only miscalculation was that he did not expect the Senate to honor him with two days of graduation oratory...
...than any war of modern times, have been about 100,000; wounded about the same. The mysterious Gran Chaco has at last been explored, even to some extent developed and colonized. Economically, Paraguay is no better off than Bolivia; both are financially exhausted. Simon Patiño's mine stocks were up last week. And last week in Asuncion there was earnest talk of rewarding Paraguay's able General Estigarribia with the rank of Marshal, a title last held by the great Tyrant López, as well as a life income of 1,500 gold pesos...
Richest strike in Nevada's fabulous Corn-stock Lode was made in March 1873 when the Consolidated Virginia mine opened a silvershot vein 54 ft. thick. Before it was played out the vein yielded $190,000,000 in pure bullion and made a onetime Irish immigrant clerk one of the richest men in the greatest get-rich-quick era in U. S. history. Like many another bonanza king, John William Mackay beat a quick & gaudy path to the capitals of Europe but he did leave an enduring monument to his amazing energy-Postal Telegraph...