Word: mining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coal, where John Lewis last month pretty well stymied A. F. of L. for the next two years by winning a contract which binds most of the industry to employ only members of his United Mine Workers. But that did not end one of the fiercest wars in U. S. Labor: A. F. of L.'s small but growing Progressive Miners of America is still trying to proselytize Lewis men in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Alabama and elsewhere, lay the groundwork for demanding agreements in 1941. Meanwhile, the Lewis union, greatly strengthened by its victory, is chipping away at Progressive...
...Almost roof-high and room-long in the Mines, Metals and Machinery Building stretches Treasure Mountain, showing open-pit mine operations aboveground, gold and copper mining along 500 feet of underground passageways. Good also: U. S. Steel's diorama of a steel-built San Francisco of 1999; a 555-lb. piano hanging from a thin steel thread...
Before plunging into the KFAR project, Cap Lathrop did considerable prospecting. He located every mine and outpost in the vast Alaskan interior within KFAR's expected range, which is more than the U. S. Government has ever done. For expected sponsors the census showed a potential audience of some 25,000, with a per capita buying power five times that of the average U. S. consumer and very little else to do evenings but listen to a radio. Expecting a short-wave network connection with some U. S. chain, KFAR nevertheless intends to broadcast home-made programs for Alaska...
...will left by Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot, rich, blue-blooded Social Ethics professor at Harvard, who died last month: "I . . . realizing that God has allowed me a life of almost unbroken happiness upon this earth, and that this happiness has been due in no way to any merit of mine, but has been permitted in spite of grievous sins and shortcomings, do now make this, my last will and testament." To friends and servants he bequeathed $200,000; to pet philanthropies about...
Since starting in business 24 years ago, the Carrier Corp. and its corporate predecessors have set up air-conditioning outfits in establishments ranging from hamburger stands to textile mills, from racehorse stables in Ceylon to a copper mine in Arizona, from a gorilla's cage in Ringling Bros, circus to Texas hotels and Manhattan department stores...