Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President and the Senator talked about tin mining. Fresh reports disclosed that loyal forces were now fighting back strongly in Cochabamba. Capehart chewed on his cigar. Another telegram told how a boy on a bicycle had ridden, like a young Paul Revere, to the nearby town of Ucurena to alert...
Herbert Bergson, trustbuster for the Truman Administration from 1948 to 1950, was indicted by a federal grand jury in a test of the "conflict of interests" statute, the first criminal indictment under the law. The charge: Lawyer Bergson represented three companies (Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co., the Carborundum Co. of Niagara...
In the 1950 totals, the biggest share of the U.S. capital was in oil: $1.4 billion. Then followed public utilities. $1 billion; manufacturing, $800 million; mining and smelting. $600 million; agriculture, $500 million. Fastest-rising industry: manufacturing (chemicals, food processing, motor vehicles and machinery), where investment has more than tripled...
As he sings, a pair of willowy girls dance teasingly across the stage, only to be followed by a trio of hillbilly hags who bring the dreamer down to earth. In Gold Rush (from Paint Your Wagon), the girl dancers, cast as lighthearted trollops, swirl happily into a mining town...
Congress has already rejected one such measure. But the industry is in such a critical state now that Congress will have to make a more basic decision: whether the nation's lead and zinc mining industry is more-or less-essential than the Administration's goal of lower...