Word: picher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State sore spot 25 years ago, the report admits, the better mining companies have done much to improve silicosis precautions. But "wetting down," particularly in smaller mines, is not enforced, and gas masks are too uncomfortable for daily use. In 1927 a "model" silicosis clinic was established at Picher, Okla., but clinic doctors could merely make diagnoses and statistical surveys, offer no treatment for the 5,366 silicosis victims examined...
Phenix City is a good example of a bookless U. S. town, but it is by no means unusual. Literary deserts also are Shelbyville, Tenn. (pop. 5,010), Picher, Okla. (pop. 7,773), Jenkins, Ky. (pop. 8,465), Kingsford, Mich. (pop. 5,526), Manville, N. J. (pop. 5,441), many another U. S. town. Of 3,072 U. S. counties, 897 have no libraries. Of 982 cities over 10,000 population, 40 are libraryless. Thirty-two million people (geographically two-thirds of the U. S.) have no bookstores...
...last week's end, C. I. Organizers met trouble that they did not expect. For Sunday they had scheduled a mass meeting at small Picher, Okla. in the midst of a rich lead & zinc region to talk tough miners into deserting the independent Tri-State Metal, Mine & Smelter Workers' Union. Before the meeting could assemble a mob of 4,000 Tri-Staters marched in armed with pick handles, clouted every C. I. O. man they could find in town, wrecked the meeting hall. Looking for more C. I. O. meetings, the mob crossed the Kansas line. One section...
...clock: S. L. Olinick vs. W. S. Picher, P. C. Staples vs. J. F. Kaowles, and G. VanD. Collins vs. R. M. Ballou...
...Taussig defeated W. P. Haskel, H. A. Hoffman defeated G. T. Skinner, R. M. Ballon defeated Marvin Williams, J. F. Knowles defeated R. B. Miller, S. L. Olinick defeated R. G. Claflin, B. D. Davis defeated W. R. O'Brien, G. H. Collins defeated C. B. Sears, W. S. Picher defeated R. W. Harper...