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...this year the losses increased because of rising costs and a dwindling market. On May 3 the company, coalmining subsidiary of Lehigh Coal & Navigation and fourth biggest U.S. hard-coal producer, shut down the mines, threw 4,000 miners out of work. Later it offered to reopen the mines if the United Mine Workers' locals would agree to "work harder, produce more." Since there are almost no other jobs in the valley, five locals voted to go back to work. The Tamaqua local refused, saying 250 of its 800 members would lose their jobs. Tamaqua pickets kept the mines...
Last week the company proved that it was not bluffing. It shut down the mines for good. This week the shocked miners offered to contribute 20 days' pay to the company, about $1,500,000, if it would reopen the mines...
Britain's industrial production index (on which 1948 equals 100) was 124 for April, up six points from the year before. Such signs of better times have already led Britain to reopen London's gold and commodity markets, end rationing on everything but meat, and lift restrictions on about half of all imports...
...ruling came as a shock to the FPC. The commission itself had held in 1951 that it had no authority to regulate the price of gas at the wellhead. Now the FPC must exercise a power it does not want. Nevertheless, the commission, under Chairman Jerome Kuykendall, plans to reopen rate hearings immediately for the Phillips Petroleum Co., the big independent producer that carried the gas case to the Supreme Court, and try to set a rate pattern for other independents...
...attack; in Manhattan. With an ambitious eye on the Republican presidential nomination in 1936, Hoffman let his vision stray to the Lindbergh kidnaping case. Bruno Richard Hauptmann stood convicted of the crime, but Hoffman, insisting that he sought justice for Hauptmann and not publicity for himself, impoliticly tried to reopen the case. He died awaiting justice for himself, under suspension as New Jersey's employment-security director since last March, when his purchasing division came under fire...