Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Said Wendell Willkie: "We Americans know that the bitterness is a distortion, not a true reflection of what is in our hearts. I can truthfully say that there is no bitterness in mine. I hope there is none in yours. I was the target of most of the shafts and if I can forget, surely...
Across the front of the United Mine Workers Building in Washington, the morning after election, pranksters hung a huge sign: "RESIGNATION ACCEPTED." In soap letters on the door they scrawled: "Lewis phooey." "The people's choice-Roosevelt...
...distinction last week of being the home town of the first (and only) U. S. seaman to drown in the sinking of the first U. S. vessel sunk by the Axis-the 5,883-ton freighter City of Rayville (Tampa, Fla.). The ship apparently hit a mine, presumably laid by the same raider that had previously mined antipodean waters (TIME, July 1) in Bass Strait, between Australia and Tasmania. (A few hours earlier an unidentified British freighter had met the same fate.) Third Engineer Mac B. Bryan of Randleman, N. C. leaped overboard from the City of Rayville without...
...resign as head of C. I. O. upon President Roosevelt's reelection: "Here's your hat, pal-and your reversible coat." Washington observers predicted 1) that with Lewis' resignation, C. I. O.-A. F. L. peace would come soon; 2) that as leader of United Mine Workers, Lewis would continue as a potent C. I. O. figure despite his resignation; 3) that able, undramatic Phil Murray would head...
...property he sells, works on a commission basis under contract to banks and companies that do. Prosperous, soft-tongued, he convinces purchasers his towns are not so decadent as they seem. Believing that prosperity will bring some new company to Pattontown, he advertised "this is not a ghost town-mine operations will resume at an early date." Since Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman has his eye on ghost towns, has begun investigating "shutdown areas" with a view to their use in defense, Frank Moran's optimism may make sense...