Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark summer of 1932, over the violent protest of the workers involved, President John Llewellyn Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America signed a contract with Illinois coal operators reducing the basic daily wage from $6.10 to $5. Whatever justification for this dictatorial procedure there may have been, the reaction of the miners was direct and immediate. A large group revolted, setting themselves up as the Progressive Miners of America, an organization with 30,000 members in the bituminous fields of Illinois and Indiana, which this year joined up with Mr. Lewis' enemy...
...tale told in the Federal Court in Springfield of union corruption, corporate connivance, espionage, counterespionage, death, terror and double-dealing made it apparent that morally if not legally the United Mine Workers and the coal operators were as guilty of fomenting civil war as the Progressive Miners of America...
...they vigorously denied responsibility for them. Behind the Government's prosecution they saw the heavy fist of John L. Lewis. Testimony showed that expenses of many a Government witness were paid not by the Government but by unknown persons, and the Progressives suspected John Lewis' United Mine Workers. One Government witness, a convicted murderer, could boast that John Lewis had intervened to get him paroled. Among the defendants there was also a convicted murderer. The Government produced a witness who was a confessed counterfeiter. A son testified against his father-that among other things he had seen...
...stanch-bellied' Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring (Air Minister & economic dictator). They will blueprint Germany's economic, industrial life and plan for complete and immediate mobilization in the event of. war. The Nazi object: preparation for "total war"-i. e., a fight in which every business, factory, mine is part of the German military machine...
...White, quickly make friends-bush-tailed squirrels and striped chipmunks, birds, horny turtles, and a big-eyed, bangtailed buck. Joyously they lead Snow White to a slovenly little hut they know of. When the dwarfs who own the hut return from their day's work in the diamond mine, they are alarmed to find their hovel spick-&-span...