Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personal income in August was also nipped by the strike, and fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $381.4 billion, $2.6 billion below the July level of the nation's wage and salary payments. In five manufacturing industries closely allied to steel-primary metals, mining, transportation, fabricated metals...
Thus the coal-mining, textile and auto industry towns, said the Labor Department, bear the burden of chronic unemployment. In Detroit alone, automation, decentralization and lower production have brought the loss of 130,000 auto manufacturing jobs in the past nine years. This means, said the Labor Department, that since...
In its heyday, the gold-mining town of Deadwood, S.D., nestling in a steep-sided gulch in the Black Hills, was a brawling, ripsnorting oasis of 25,000 people, pungent with gunsmoke and ribaldry. There, in the late 1800s, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane lived-until that mean coward...
Blood & Paper. Assisted covertly at first, then openly by imperial troops, the Boxers attacked along the yo-mile line from Peking to Tientsin. They blooded themselves with wholesale massacres of the missionaries in isolated places, and marched on the cities. In Tientsin a young U.S. mining engineer named Herbert Hoover...
The swift spread of stock ownership is even more striking on the Continent. In West Germany, the Adenauer government is plowing ahead with its plan to "reprivatize" a $1 billion industrial empire inherited from the Nazis. Last spring the government sold the giant Preussag mining combine to 216,000 new...