Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miners, maddened by labor grievances in the coal fields of southeastern Ohio, filled a mine-car with coal, doused it thoroughly with kerosene, ignited it, started it down the tracks of an inclined shaft in which, at the end of its run, it fired the unmined coal. That fire, started on the property of Columbus' Hocking Coal & Mine Co., has burned on underground ever since. By last week it had burned a subterranean area of twelve square miles...
...Biggest single-shaft turbogenerators, of which there are three, produce 160,000 kw. each...
...trapped miner was a trapped miner, and Superintendent Jones called his foreman, assembled timber, tackle and a squad of miners for the rescue. All that day and the following night the rescuers could hear faint sounds from Enoch Kuklinskie. They were afraid that wet clay dripping from the shaft walls would fill up the air holes in the rubble before they reached him. Next morning they got him free, hoisted him out of the shaft on a board...
English A, as was the case last year, comes in for the lion's share of criticism in the Committee report. The shaft leveled at the section men hits an evil as troublesome as ever but one which it should be easy to correct. It is a commentary upon the workings of University Hall that the opening gun of last year's report, the recommendation that teaching ability be made the chief criterion in choosing section men for this course, should have to be sounded off again in the new report. The lack of coordination between section men, with...
...another ten or twelve hours. Soon he could hear the picks of the miners hacking frantically overhead, passing rock and dirt up to the surface by a human chain. Hospital kits were unpacked, stretcher-bearers stood ready as the tired rescuers, themselves threatened momentarily with collapse of their shaft, sent up word that they were "almost through...