Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greeks! Remember what the nation accomplished under my father [King Constantine], how we progressed toward the fulfillment of our dreams. Greeks! My ancestors' motto will also be mine: 'My strength lies in my people's love...
...residence, the father acting as "watchman." By this time, though, young Key had disappeared, so it was to the father that newshawks put their queries. Was it true that "Ted" Key was really Clois Francis ("Shorty") Key, who played two years as fullback with the Texas School of Mines in 1930-31? Not at all, declared Father Key. "I ought to know my own son." But even a father's word was not enough for U. C. L. A. Dean Earl J. Miller who forthwith set out for Texas, home of the Keys, to straighten out the case...
...mine selling price of every lump of the nation's soft coal last week fell a new 15% Federal tax, 90% of which will be rebated to producers who sign the NRA-like code prescribed by the Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935. Moving promptly to resolve what President Roosevelt called "doubt, however reasonable," as to the Act's constitutionality, President James W. Carter of Virginia's and West Virginia's Carter Coal Co. lost one decision to the Government, won one against his family in District of Columbia Supreme Court...
Died. John ("Old Itchfoot") Swanson, 65, onetime rich, notorious gold prospector; in Los Angeles. He went to Nome in the 1890's, staked out the "Little Minook" mine, gathered in $15,000 a day for a great many days, was a crony of Tex Rickard, Rex Beach, Jack London and "Klondike Kate" Rockwell, poured his money in a yellow river across the gambling tables. Broke, hoping for another big strike, he succumbed in a dismal flophouse last week to acute indigestion...
...stitching for Mrs." Zorach to finish it. "The difficult thing," she explained last week, "is to get the right sort of linen for them. It must be loosely woven, but strong, and the warp and woof must be even. The wools are not so hard. I used to get mine from an old man down in Greenwich Village. I think he was a fence for stolen goods. . . . Sometimes I dye them myself and sometimes I take already dyed wools and re-dye them. I have some wonderful German dyes a friend gave me before the War and I still...