Word: mineral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bevan was born to anger in the coal-seamed Ebbw Vale district of South Wales. He was one of the seven surviving children of a coal miner, grew up in a cramped, mud-floored cottage in the grimy town of Tredegar. At 13 Nye left school and went into the mines himself...
...Chicago this week Federal Judge Julius Miner has ordered Sayen to explain why such a basically healthy group as the pilots should suddenly suffer so many illnesses. He advised Sayen to be armed with medical affidavits to back up his case...
...Lady was born on March 16, 1912, in the mining town of Ely, Nev., and her birthplace may well have been a tent. (No one is certain, but Ely was a rowdy tent town at the time, and at best the towheaded baby came into the world in a miner's shack.) William Ryan was a footloose Irishman who had met and married Kate Halberstadt Bender, a young widow with two children. Kate, who had emigrated from Germany as a ten-year-old girl, soon presented her husband with two sons, Bill and Tom. The youngest of their three...
...South Africans one awkward test of compassion still remained. A relief fund for the survivors had climbed past the $300,000 mark. In South Africa there is no racial equality even in death; compensation laws grant a white miner's wife a pension for life of up to $93 a month. But a Bantu widow gets only a lump sum payment, which, if prudently invested, would give a return calculated at $9 a month. At week's end keepers of the fund were trying to decide whether or not to apply a similar ratio...
...mystery is complicated when the body of a stillborn baby is discovered nearby-no girl in the village, as someone remarks, was known to have been as pregnant as all that. The local justice of the peace, who is also a miner and a poet, follows the crime to its solution. But violence, although it is one of the elements of life in Novelist Gallie's village, is not the dominant one. The book begins with poetry-impudent, rope-skipping verses shrilled out by little girls-and it ends the same way, as the justice of the peace...