Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...risk dismemberment by joining any body dominated by A. F. of L. craftsmen. Said Electrical Worker James Barren Carey: "The C. I. O. wants peace˜without pieces." High Politics. Fitted into the new C. I. O. jigsaw are such diverse unions as Mr. Lewis' essentially conservative United Mine Workers, Sidney Hillman's liberal Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Harry Bridges' radical International Longshoremen & Warehousemen, Joe Curran's turbulent National Maritime Union. Their common, immediate aim, to organize the mass production industries, holds them soundly together, but there are dissents within the whole. Last week one of these...
...daring young engineer (Richard Greene*) on the submarine chaser S.C. 599, assigned to convoy the freighter through the Mediterranean. Result of the combination is to make Submarine Patrol, forcefully directed by John Ford, the season's liveliest adventure film. Good sequence: the wooden S.C. 599 nosing through a mine field to blow up a U-boat at its supply base...
Arthur H. James, 55, of Pennsylvania, sawed-off, sorrel-topped corporation lawyer and Superior Court judge, up from a coal mine boss...
...three-year receipts of $3.540.385.62; expenditure of $3,510,954.93; balance on hand. $29,430.69. Most significant claim: that C. I. O. has balanced its budget with incomes from dues, no longer depends on subsidies from its wealthy unions such as Mr. Lewis' United Mine Workers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
Early in the century Dr. Kelly was impressed by the Curies' radium discoveries, and in 1904 he bought a supply of radium, cured a woman of cancer. Eager to develop domestic sources of radium, he studied mining, learned that radium could be obtained from carnotite, developed a reduction plant at Denver to make domestic radium available. Dr. Kelly's interest in domestic radium, says Dr. Cullen jokingly, began when he lost $80,000 in a Mexican silver mine. At present he is estimated to have the largest private radium supply in the world...