Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Virginia are 112,000 coal miners. One-third of them are unemployed. Another one-third work only two or three days per week. For each ton of coal they mine they get 28?. They work ten to twelve hours, earn from $2.60 to $4 per day. They live in company-owned shacks, without heat or light. Their rent is $10 per month. The companies charge them $1.50 per ton for fuel coal. They never see any U. S. cash. The companies pay them with company scrip, metal tokens good only at company stores. At these stores a 75? sack...
...Lord Curzon's experience and qualifications at that time were infinitely greater than mine. I can never forget the generosity with which he treated me, his willing consent to serve under me; and never by word, by expression or by look did he show he would have had it otherwise...
Almost every college has its campus character?a decrepit newsboy, perhaps, or a blowzy charlady, an eccentric professor. Cornell University's character is Romeyn (pronounced Roe-mine) Berry, graduate manager of athletics. Usually taken for granted, he made news at Ithaca last week by losing his most famed possession, a brown tweed hat with a grouse feather in the band. He put a notice in the Cornell Daily Sun: "I value the hat highly and will pay for its return a reward of $10?just twice the cost of the thing. ... No questions asked. ... If the finder...
...propitious time comes Noranda's new gold discovery. Low commodity prices, cheaper Labor, have in effect in creased the price of gold, always salable to Government mints at $20.67183462 per fine ounce. Thus gold mines which a few years ago were just able to break even are now operating at a profit, ones which were just profitable are now turning in tremendous profits. The effect of this has been that Gold Fever, always smoldering in the mind of man, has flamed fiercer than ever. One evidence of this is seen on the stock exchanges. Alaska Juneau (the big Treadwell...
There have been many criticisms of the medical attention received at Wadsworth House, but a late experience of mine may add strength to them. Until recently I had no need to take advantage of the service offered by the University...