Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What course are you taking? Mine isn't a unique one--just a straight A.B.--with lots...
...ashamed of me! Never would I ever have b'lieved such as this would come from my pen (it really isn't mine; I borrowed the roomie's 'cause she's gone off with mine--mine's the better--So much for pens...
...described for NANA would make sober reading for Japanese jingoes: "Imagine a section of a subway, complete with a double set of rails well over 100 yards long, and lacking only the platforms, advertisements and escalators, and you have a fairly accurate picture of the Adventure's mine deck. ''This unique railway is served by about 80 officers and men, and its rolling stock consists of hundreds of the most powerful submarine mines in existence. . . . When the order is given to lay mines, the sinister 'train' is set in motion. Its speed can be regulated...
...After two more conferences, President Roosevelt persuaded the "captive" coal mine owners of Pennsylvania to grant their employes the check-off system, whereby the company pays a miner's union dues for him out of his wages. This concession was expected to end the long-lived captive mine strike. Same day the President mediated the price of rails whose purchase the Government was to finance for railroads (see p. 52). The four U. S. railmakers had entered identical bids on the 844,000-ton order: $37.75 a ton. Railroad Co-Ordinator Eastman, who had cried "Collusion!" at the offer...
...issued, every man in Washington who had a press pass prepared to attend. In Georgia and South Carolina, 4,000 striking cotton workers had snarled Labor's section of the march toward Recovery. Police engaged in pitched battle with rioting silk workers in New Jersey. Rival coal mine unionists were killing each other in Illinois. Angered by falling commodity prices, disgruntled farmers were getting ready to embroil the Midwest in an agricultural strike (see p.11). Rural agitation for inflation had raised an issue from which the Administration had been dancing away for weeks. But by noon the newshawks knew...