Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later, with both sides standing pat, the 30-day deadline came & went. Out of A. F. of L. marched 1,100,000 members of United Mine Workers; Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Ladies' Garment Workers; United Textile Workers; Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers; Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers; Iron, Steel & Tin Workers; United Automobile Workers; United Rubber Workers; Flat Glass Workers...
...come back to reality, to American life. It is the same in a great city as it is on the farm, the daily routine whether in an office, in a tall building or plowing a 40-acre field, fighting chinch bugs or grasshoppers, or going down in a mine to get ore, standing at a loom, sweating at a forge, or working in a forest. All these are real. No falsetto here. No emotional stuff-but hard reality. . . . Landon has always touched reality. He has always faced life at first hand. He is no theorist, and the Lord be praised...
...were out there we might as well keep on going and come in on the flood tide and breeze the next day. We sailed around all night between the San Francisco lightship and the Faralone Islands, twice during the night we passed the Bar Pilot's schooner, Lady Mine, in command of Captain Alex Swanson, who spoke to us wanting to know what in hell we were doing out there...
...Died. Sir Thomas Cullinan, 74, owner of South Africa's Premier Mine, in which was discovered in 1905 the world's biggest diamond (Weight: 3,106 carats-1⅓ lb.); in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cullinan I, largest (530 carats) of the 105 diamonds cut from it, reposes in King Edward VIII's scepter...
That the U. S. had a great new gold vein in its lap was the fond hope of the West last week.* Whatever it was, the Jumbo Mine, in the Awakening district of Nevada's Slumbering Hills made headlines from San Francisco to Manhattan. Discoverers were two old prospectors, "Red" Staggs and Clyde Taylor, who spied the yellow flecks on the frozen ground of this sagebrush desert on Jan. 29, 1935. Three months later, in need of cash, they sold their find to George Austin, grizzled, 63-year-old keeper of the general store, hotel and filling station...