Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harvest time of 1931 when city laborers needed food but had no money to buy it and farmers needed hands but had no money to pay them. The laborers worked for farm produce. The N. D. A. now operates an oil refinery, two canning factories, a tannery, a coal mine. It has a two-story headquarters at Salt Lake City in which it maintains a produce and goods exchange. There are branches in Ogden, Brigham. Logan, Lehi, American Fork. Price and Delta, Utah. Idaho branches are located at Preston, Montpelier, Rexburg, Ridgedale. There is another at Phoenix, Ariz...
...bales. . . . Have these gentlemen 'any suggestions as to how foreigners shall pay for the goods they buy from us?" That, most responsible economists agree, is the biggest flaw in "Buy American." Even last year the U. S. exported about $1,500,000,000 of farm, factory, mine and forest products. Foreign countries must sell to the U. S. goods or services of an equal value or pay in gold. And foreigners have already paid so much gold that many of them have been forced off the gold standard. Japan cannot buy Texas cotton unless she sells electric light bulbs...
...gold in Colorado. Haw Tabor took to running a general store. In return for $64 worth of supplies, two German silver-diggers gave him a one-third interest in anything they found. His share turned out to be worth more than $1,000,000. Tabor acquired a better mine from a swindler who, thinking his land worthless, had sprinkled silver on top of it without bothering to look beneath the surface. Equipped with fabulous wealth, Tabor gave Denver a munificent opera house with his name engraved on a two-foot block of silver. He got himself elected lieutenant governor, divorced...
Denver opening of Silver Dollar was Baby Doe, now a recluse who lives near Denver in a shack built at the entrance of the disused Matchless Mine. Grown eccentric in her dotage, she threatens to shoot visitors with a shotgun, wears remnants of the dresses she wore in Washington when Haw Tabor seemed to be the richest man in the world. She still believes that her daughter, Silver Dollar Tabor-who died, under an assumed name, in a Chicago brothel in 1925-is alive in a convent...
Because Jews in Russia 50 years ago stood little chance of getting ahead and were almost sure to be fair game for Cossacks at some time in their lives, Harris Nevin emigrated to the U. S. He dug ditches for the Pennsylvania R. R., drove mules in a coal mine, finally hit upon peddling. Peddling was so much better than coal mining that he soon opened a store. After a while he sold the store and went back to Russia for a year's visit...