Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mining. Phelps Dodge, No. 2 domestic copper producer (after Kennecott), came put 11% ahead of its 1952 marks, both in sales and in earnings of $39 million. Freeport Sulphur piled up the highest sales, $38 million, and profits, $8.5 million, in its history.
In the dreary coal-mining town of Gerindery, Australia, it is pretty hard for anyone to get away from himself, let alone from the neighbors. What with the drought and a strike in the mine, life is hard, and bears little promise of getting better. Fanny Warrener is a milliner...
Ore & Atoms. Florida's real−and least expected−source of wealth is just now being discovered. Long considered poor in basic raw materials, the state has been finding uses for things that once were considered worthless. Around Jacksonville, two companies are mining ilmenite and rutile, from which...
Born on the border at Brownsville, Holland learned Spanish as a boy from Mexican-American playmates, took his law degree from the University of Texas and practiced in San Antonio until 1942. Then he joined the Foreign Service Auxiliary in the Mexico City embassy, serving as a special assistant to...
Bad for Each Other (Columbia), something like an 83-minute footnote to the Hippocratic oath, is about a young coaltown M.D. (Charlton Heston) who goes to the big city and becomes a society doctor. As the money piles up, his stock of self-respect goes down, and in the end...