Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third successive week exceeded last year's figures, and May was expected to be the best month in nearly two years. Steel output crossed the line at 33% of capacity, was expected to soar to 40% this week. Carloadings, biggest barometer of the movement of goods from mine to mill, from factory to store, jumped 43,000 to 535,000. considerably more than the usual seasonal gain.* Only major index still below the line was electric power production, but a heavy gain was predicted for this week. The gains were not all in the basic industries. Retailers described their...
...principals in Today We Live. All this is as implausible as it is fancy, hut what is neither implausible nor fancy in Hell Below are scenes in the control room of the submarine with men dying slowly of chlorine gas; torpedoes arrowing smoothly toward German mine layers; depth bombs going off near the submarine's bow; a German cruiser exploding and sinking. In a picture so muddled in texture it is not surprising to find two comedians, Sterling Holloway and Jimmy Durante, cast in opposite types of roles. More startling is the fact that the experiment turns...
...alma mater Haverford College, Author Wright (real name: William Reitzel) worked in Cuba a year five years ago, there wandered the countryside, spoke the language, watched the people instead of the politicians. Young Spaniard Jose Perdriga found Cuba rather puzzling. He had a job in a U. S.-owned mine and did it satisfactorily, though his simple tastes would have attracted him to farming. All he wanted for the immediate future was Maria, daughter of fat Marco Sanclemente, who ran the company canteen. Marco was a politico in a small way and tried to shape his future...
Soon Jose was in a comfortable rut and wanted nothing better for the rest of his days. But Senor Wilson, his Americano boss, had his eye on Jose: when a new mine was opened up in the hills he promoted Jose to be timekeeper there. Again Jose did the job satisfactorily, but still he did not like it. When he got a chance to buy a farm and settle down once more he did it. Senor Wilson and Jose's other forward-looking friends could not understand it; but at last Jose was happy. He flattered Maria by marrying...
Andes-Consolidated Virginia Mining Co. lately bought an old house for $150, last week set unemployed miners to wreck it for firewood. One afternoon a wrecker rushed to the superintendent of the mine carrying a hunk of rock. It was silver ore, assaying $500 a ton. Hastily a small shaft was driven into the ground nearby; mining engineers rushed from San Francisco. The discovery of a "lost bonanza" was confirmed. Once more Virginia City was a boom town. Piute squaws came down out of the hills. Divorcees in fur coats motored over from Reno. But no lucky prospector stood...