Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, Sept. 4, in its article on "Little Siberia," makes a pardonable mistranslation of Bergfrauen as "mountain women," since the German language can at times be untranslatable. The word Berg, although it means mountain when it stands alone, means mine when it precedes another noun; e.g., Bergwerk-mine, Bergakademie-mining...
*Which provided sentences up to twelve years for Soviet citizens spilling such state secrets as statistics on foreign trade, foreign currency holdings, mining production and any unreleased agricultural or commercial data.
The life Lana takes for her own begins in Kansas, soon moves to Manhattan where she becomes U.S. model No. 1. But there is a gap in her life, and Ray Milland, a married mining engineer, comes along to fill it. After they have lived for three months in sin...
On Australia's shopping list are: 1) tractors and farm machinery to help boost the nation's agricultural output, 2) bulldozers and other heavy earth-moving equipment for power projects, to increase generating capacity from the present 2,100,000 kilowatts to 5,600,000 kilowatts in 1958...
Given Glen (Houghton Mifflin; $3-75) is a massive and hard-to-swallow pill by that usually deft practitioner of slickmagazine fiction, Ben Ames Williams. For 629 pages, it rambles pointlessly on about Owen Glen's childhood in the 'gos, the daily minutiae of a mining town with...