Word: mines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Maytag, president of the company, might have expected to escape labor trouble. But another name is also great in Jasper County. John Llewellyn Lewis was born 50 miles southwest of Newton 58 years ago, has in Jasper County much strength and one of the oldest locals of his United Mine Workers. So last year beneficent Maytag, caught in the union wash, signed a contract with C. I. O.'s United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America...
...months ago in a Hollywood café, a prospector let Cinemactor Errol Flynn fondle a gold nugget, sold Flynn on the idea of spending $17,000 to send him in a specially purchased plane to Alaska to work the claim. Last week Hollywood heard what happened: 1) the gold mine was a fake; 2) the prospector had flown the coop; 3) the smashed plane had to be abandoned; 4) Alaska had a newly christened peak. Name: "Flynn's Folly...
Virtually all of Belgium's coal mine operators last week agreed to suspend operations on Mondays for the next few months. The reason: "Owing to the convival character of Sundays many mining districts have found Mondays not the most efficient day of the week...
...when Grant knocked down a Mexican policeman. But such pranks hurt nobody; the Americans were popular, President Porfirio Diaz maintained order in the land. The Shepherd girls grew up and married Americans. The boys went to work: Alex in charge of the power plant; Grant in charge of one mine; Con of another...
...Silver Magnet Grant Shepherd does not answer these questions, or explain exactly what finally happened to the mine. Midway through his book he begins to write less about the lost pleasures of Batopilas, and more about long vacations, about sprees, about squabbles with mean-spirited natives, about the petty thievery among workmen, the stupidity of newcomers, the pusillanimity of the Wilson administration, etc. His story becomes a monotonous recital of how the Shepherd brothers put tough customers in their places, of his political opinions and longings for good days long-past. But if its final impression is one of confusion...