Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herbert Hoover, who made himself a successful mining engineer before he went into public life, is nowhere near being the extraordinarily wealthy man that he might have been if he had returned to his profession. He did not take any pay as Food Administrator, and as Secretary of Commerce and...
* The man who did give his name to the college: Portland steamboat and mining Tycoon Simeon Gannett Reed, who put up the first money.
Died. William Harold Hoover, 63, president (since 1949) of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., the world's largest copper producer, who last year launched Anaconda into the aluminum business, making it fourth in the field (after Alcoa, Reynolds, Kaiser); of cancer; in Butte, Mont.
A Tammany politician who once threatened to sue a newspaper for libel was advised by his lawyer: "Never sue. They might prove it on you." Last week in Nanticoke, Pa. (pop. 20,160) another politician proved the wisdom of this advice. Until he ran for mayor, Anthony B. Dreier, a...
The coal pits are undermanned, but 20,000 of Italy's unemployed are ready & willing to make up the difference. As a start, the late Labor government imported 2,200 Italians, paid their fares, spent additional thousands teaching them coal mining and English, housed them, gave them contracts for...