Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...geologist named Norton who was traveling through southwest Arkansas lately, Farmer J. L. Cox of Graysonia showed a hunk of red rock. "Cinna-bar," explained the geologist. "Put it in a fire pot. It will run quicksilver." That is one version of the start of a current rush to mine mercury in the Ozarks. Another version is that railroad laborers exposed a valuable vein of cinnabar near Amity when they blasted out some sandstone riprap...
Governor Roosevelt is used to hearing that he is unfit to lead the Democracy. Last week at Albany he parried the Smith attack thus: "I'll tell you a funny one. A friend of mine called from New York today and said: 'Wasn't that a terrible attack Al Smith made on "Alfalfa Bill" Murray...
...Lives Lost in British Liner Wreck. 300 Lives Lost in French Mine Disaster...
...point a moral, gentlemen, would be to waste your time and mine...
...mighty naval armament convoying troops, and the possibility of warding off such an attack by a lighter, more mobile defending force. The Blue attackers, under the command of Admiral Richard Henry Leigh, commander of the Battle Forces, consisted of nine battleships, four light cruisers, 23 destroyers, one mine layer, four light mine layers, aircraft carrier Saratoga ("Sister Sara"), 104 planes, 18 auxiliary craft representing 30 troopships. The Black defenders, commanded by Vice Admiral Arthur Lee Willard of the Scouting Force, numbered eleven cruisers (including seven of the new "Treaty" 10,000-tonners), 28 destroyers, five V-type heavy submarines...