Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For the past four years the world has known that the Russians are mining uranium in Eastern Germany. Frightened workers who managed to escape from the mines into Germany's Western zones have told bits & pieces of the story. Last week
Female workers, dubbed Bergfrauen (mountain women) by the local population, labor as hard as the men, digging, clearing trenches, building galleries, pushing trolleys. Average pay is 200-400 East marks ($8 to $16) weekly, although a worker who exceeds the "norm" may make more. Many miners, who are issued no...
A Soviet monopoly called the Wismut A.G. runs little Siberia. It has an administrative staff of 15,000, directed by a Major General Malzev. Since mining began in August 1946, millions of tons of pitchblende have been extracted by Wismut A.G. and sent to Russia. It is poor in uranium...
The Bolivian government has not done much about the problem either, but this summer a labor delegation from the Catavi tin mining region called on President Urriolagoitia and asked that the sale of alcohol be prohibited or limited in their area. As a result, the government forbade the sale of...
Slashing Envelopment. During the Battle of the Bulge, in which most of the Third Army was pulled out of line to carve a spectacular corridor north to isolated Bastogne, the XX Corps' principal job was to hold the whole of Patton's depleted former front. Walker did it...