Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lyndon Johnson, Senate Majority Leader, in a blast in the coal-mining center of Welch (pop. 6,850), called on West Virginia to elect two new Democratic Senators to replace its Republicans. He charged that the G.O.P. is running against Old Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, because they know they "can...
"On the Yangtse, where there is opencast mining, I saw 220 peasants hacking iron ore out of an open hillside and breaking it to pieces with hammers. Another 460 were busy constructing a dozen primitive blast furnaces and preparing a steelworks as well. 'Next year we shall make our...
The stabilization plan for sugar has worked reasonably well. But restrictions on metals present greater problems, largely because of wide variances in production costs. Canada is reluctant to enter a lead and zinc cartel because her mining economy is booming, would prefer a free market in which high-cost producers...
Wed., Oct. 8 High Adventure with Lowell Thomas (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The old vagabond reporter takes his color cameras north on the trail of the Alaskan gold rush, from placer mining on Porcupine Creek to Jazz Singer Hattie in Juneau's Red Dog Saloon.
Mindful of the U.S. Tariff Commission's recommendations for boosting tariffs, foreign nations regarded quotas as much the lesser evil. They were fully aware that U.S. mine production has fallen while imports have climbed (see chart). Canadian politicians railed at the ruling, but Canadian miners were more subdued. "It...