Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having today seen Singer's midgets at a Salt Lake City theatre, I made the observation in a letter to a friend of mine that I imagined most midgets must be sexually impotent or sterile, judging from their physical development and the squeakiness of their voices...
...April 1 the copper industry agreed on a new ratio of curtailment which brought production down to 20% of capacity. It takes copper 120 days from mine to market so the effect has not yet been felt. Last week copper dropped to 5½ per lb., lowest price in history Metal & Mineral Markets said nothing has occurred to bring on the present wave of pessimism. But observers thought that low prices, possibilities of complete shutdowns, might influence Congress' attitude towards a copper tariff...
...Danny is luckier than most: he has a good though poverty-stricken home, and he has a love affair with a coal-country girl that Author Boden sketches with extraordinary tenderness. But shades of the prison-house begin to close. First there are accidents, then an explosion in the mine. Danny helps to haul the cooked bodies out. Horrified, he wanders about the streets in a daze, realizing what a life it is to which, for hunger's sake, he is doomed. Above his boy's head, above the sooty fog, shine out the stars; but these...
...sorry, Patrick," said he, "now you can tread on mine...
...matter how the lodes were discovered, southwest Arkansas was booming in minor key last week. A lumber company at Graysonia, which had finished clearing all the available timber in the district and was about to move, turned hands loose at mining cinnabar and transformed its sawmill to a mercury refining plant. Amity also has a mine and refinery. Murfreesboro is another centre. All around farmers are melting red rocks. About 1,000 strangers are in the neighborhood. They want mining rights and whiskey, raising a pretty problem for the hearth-tenders up the creeks-whether to distill moonshine or quicksilver...