Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exchange may be termed a white chip trading rendezvous for stocks. Mining and oil stocks are naturally of a speculative character and we do not attempt to make the public think they are anything Ise. A hole in the ground today may be a mine of value tomorrow, while a mine of value today may be a hole of tremendous proportions the following...
...personal attack made on myself and my article, "The Phoenix in the Babbitt Warren," which appeared in the February "Advocate." The author of this somewhat scurrilous attack chose, for reasons best known to himself, to remain anonymous, and so I must rely on you to call this letter of mine to his attention...
...comments on the "Review's" criticism were written "with tongue in cheek," as Mr. Anon, seems to have had a slight suspicion before the rage of the true Irate Subscriber blinded his sensibilities and launched him on a tirade against undergraduate pomposity in general and mine in particular. His unflattering epithets and choice of comparisons seems strangely out of keeping with the "sober and constructive criticism" that he recommends so strongly...
...WENT TO PIT COLLEGE-Lauren Gilfillan-Viking ($2.50). Diminutive Lauren Gilfillan graduated from Smith College in 1931 and, like many of her generation, could find no job. So she decided to go to a Pennsylvania mining town, write a book about it. The result of her adventures is an absorbingly interesting record, written with such artful candor that it reads like a first-rate novel. I Went to Pit College will be an eye opener to anyone who supposes that a serious book about striking miners must be either a dreary factual study or hysterical propaganda. With no statistical tables...
Professor Spargo, although he has performed a work primarily interesting to the scholar, fortified with the necessary scholarly thoroughness, has written a book which the layman can read and enjoy. The legends themselves fascinating, are recorded in a pleasant and charming way, together with a rich mine of attractive illustration from the topical art of the period...