Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House executive offices; the ape-house of The Bronx Zoo; Atlantic City's convention hall; the London Daily Mail; the Secretariat in Delhi, India; Manhattan's RCA Building; San Francisco's Stock Exchange. Lately Mr. Carrier contracted to air condition the world's deepest gold mine, in South Africa...
Born in small Neligh, Neb. to a hardbitten, union-hating coal operator father, Josephine Roche started early to have ideas of her own. At 12 she wanted to go down in a mine, was told it was too dangerous. "If it is dangerous for me," piped Josephine, "why isn't it just as dangerous for the men?" It was to be 29 years before she could do much for coal miners, but she did not forget them. The years between were busy. She took an A.B. at Vassar, an M.A. at Columbia in 1910 with Frances Perkins who became...
From him Josephine Roche inherited a large but by no means controlling block of stock in Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., third biggest coal mining company in Colorado. Crushed and disorganized by long and bloody industrial warfare, Colorado miners were then brooding another strike. The strike broke. Six workers were killed, 35 injured at the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.'s Columbine mine. Instead of scuttling back to the peaceful East, Josephine Roche bought control of the company, set out to create "a new era in the industrial relations of Colorado." She invited the dreaded United Mine Workers of America...
...hand to clear the ground and pull the stumps of controversy were such eminent gentlemen as William Green of the American Federation of Labor, Thomas Kennedy of the United Mine Workers, Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, Harold W. Story of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., not to mention a small army of professors, physicians, health officials and social workers. Some of the conferees were so excited by the prospect of the broad field before them that they wanted to gallop right out and start plowing before the President had determined the distance or direction of the furrows. One such...
...known to many & many a passenger as a pipe-smoking, teetotaling skipper who danced two hours every night of clear weather. During the War he saved the lives of 1,800 troops and seamen by beaching the original Minnewaska on the Island of Crete after she had struck a mine in Mudro Bay. For that her master was decorated with the order of Commander of the British Empire by King George himself...