Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather than the traditional horizontal (craft) union structure was precipitated by the Oilfield, Gas Well & Refinery Workers, who were about to be decimated among metal craft organizations. Other small, new industrial unions were marshaling for verticalism under the covert leadership, it was said, of John Llewellyn Lewis, whose United Mine Workers are organized vertically and form the most powerful single A. F. of L. unit...
...something strange about his sudden marriage to a girl with whom he had scarcely spoken. After his break with Diaghilev, Nijinsky suffered much. He was detained in Austria as a prisoner of war, until Diaghilev effected his release, invited him to join the Ballet for the U. S. season. Mine Nijinsky claims that Diaghilev encouraged the two religious maniacs who were responsible for Nijinsky's complete collapse. Author Haskell says that Diaghilev reprimanded the pair roundly, that if Mme Nijinsky had confided in the director in time she would have had a powerful ally...
...many old friends and private prejudices. And this is as it should be. An anthologist, however austere he may prefer to be, however much under the shadow of the classroom, is unlucky if, at the end of his labors, he cannot say, A poor unfavored thing, sir, but mine own." Heaven may forgive his indecision and the falterings of his taste provided he has kept the ardor of his heart...
...students. There are bigger places in this country for men like Smith. It now transpires that the President has been wasting his time. Brain trusts are unwieldy things at best, and still have not the wisdom of one G. H. Smith, "Hoping you will find this original service of mine of some real aid to you, I am, Very sincerely yours, G. H. Smith." "And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all h knew...
Copper was used by the Indians before 1492 but copper as a major U. S. industry is a contemporary of the power business, which is hardly two generations old. Originally the copper industry was cleanly divided into three parts: 1) mining 2) smelting & refining, 3) fabricating. In varying degrees, the smelters have gone into mining, the miners into smelting, both into fabricating. Like U. S. Steel Corp., Anaconda is a fully integrated business from mine to finished product. It is the world's biggest copper fabricator as well as the world's biggest raw producer...