Word: nottingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small pockets" of gas that Federal Mine Bureau inspectors had found in the cavernous Nottingham colliery were only minor enemies to Danny Lewis and the 15,500 mine people of Plymouth, Pa. There were gas pockets in almost every anthracite mine in Pennsylvania. Besides, Danny had known greater enemies. Last September, when his confectionery business waned, he had closed out and begun digging coal to support his wife and two children...
With his 22-man night shift last week, Danny went 835 feet down into the Nottingham's top Ross vein-a black and echoing tunnel under the Susquehanna River. The federal inspectors had removed the explosive methane gas pockets when they last visited the top Ross vein in September. This night, soon after Danny began digging, the gas pockets came back...
Among the best of the "open" Borstals is Lowdham Grange, near Nottingham. Designed for backward delinquents of 18 and 19, Lowdham has no locks and bars (except for two small punishment rooms). In their blue shorts and jackets, with house neckties of red, blue or yellow, the Lowdham boys might almost be mistaken for public school products. Housemasters get to know the boys individually, appoint house leaders and captains to keep order. The boys learn such things as cooking, shoe-repairing, painting, reading...
Combining as they did the sparkling intimacy of a lady's jewelry box and (at their best) the monumental force of Gothic cathedral sculpture, Nottingham alabasters were sought after from Italy to Iceland-until "idolatry"-hating Oliver Cromwell...
Last week at Nottingham's University College, the two Americans argued that government should not step in to provide full employment. One Nottingham debater clinched victory by tartly observing: "The question is not in most advanced countries considered a debatable point." Said ex-Lieut. Norman Temple, back near his wartime bomber base: "We just couldn't sell free enterprise to Britain...