Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Office, however, does try--efficiently, the record shows--to interview men, classify applicants, introduce them to appropriate businesses and to be a veritable mine of information about many diverse enterprises. Unquestionably, the dispersion of the depression accounts, in part, for the successful placement of so many of last year's men. More important, however, is the spirit of action found in the Office--a spirit that led to Dean Plimpton's touring the country in search of potential employers, to the establishment this year of observations trips through business institutions and plants...
...much Trotskyist deviltry had been confessed to before the Supreme Court that a map of the Soviet Union last week was a map of assassinations, rail wrecks, mine explosions, sabotage and conspiracy by Old Bolsheviks (see map), plus everywhere the spirit of Leon Trotsky, exiled from Russia in 1929 but still the rival in Communist hearts of Joseph Stalin. According to the State Public Prosecutor's charges and the confessions of all 17 prisoners, they had conspired with Exile Trotsky, who is now in Mexico (TIME, Jan. 25), not only to accomplish 3,500 railway wrecks in Russia...
...mine's open terrace workings, from which ore is grabbed by twelve mechanical shovels, the dynamite had been laid. All was nearing readiness for the festive blowoff and the newshawks, standing at a safe distance, plugged their ears, braced themselves for the shock. At that moment an electric engine rolled up drawing two cars of black powder. Five workmen and a foreman started unloading...
...there a human leg or arm, some landing as much as a mile distant. When the storm had passed 55 lay dead, 201 injured. Stricken with horror, the newshawks rushed from their vantage point to become stretcher-bearers and ambulance drivers. Hundreds of weeping women surged to the mine's terraces, searched hysterically among mountains of debris for husbands and sweethearts. To begin an immediate in vestigation, the Governor of Antofagasta Province hurried to the scene, declared...
...fighting failure brings him to the attention of the Governor, who appoints him special investigator of some cases involving illegal stock promotion. Moreno pursues his investigation even though his girl Abbey (Florence Rice) asks him not to. At a public hearing on the financing of a suspicious gold-mine invention, Moreno's trick with a tomato and a magnet ruins Abbey's family fortune, but she loves him anyway...