Word: mining
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...here to be dedicated."]* I do not suppose I am expected to speak to the dam and the water. Anything I might say to them would be of little effect. They will stand there unconscious in accordance with the laws of chemistry and physics and no utterance of mine will have any effect on them...
...simply didn't want to resign too late. I made up my mind to resign before the final vote in the Reichstag, not because I expect my action to influence the vote one way or another?I don't care what the politicians do; that's their worry, not mine ?but because I don't want anybody to say afterward, 'Oh, but if we had known you were going to do that we would have acted differently.' My act has nothing to do with politics; it is merely the moral act of a self-respecting...
Emil St. Godard had won The Pas Dog Derby every year for five years, and this year in the eastern races he showed so well that he seemed sure to repeat. In The Pas race last week, he was five minutes ahead at the turn at the Flin Flon Mine, 100 miles out. St. Godard's huskies weakened on the home stretch. A dog which had been lurching in the traces for a mile fell over without stumbling, its legs suddenly helpless. After looking it over St. Godard took its strap off and put it on the sled. Through...
...mechanical greed of money to make more money? My work was honest work. I never cared for money?never thought about it. You imply that my work helped to fill that vulgar adolescent heaven of yours. I deny it. At any rate, it's your heaven, not mine. I want none...
...Guggenheim entrance into mining was no haphazard stroke of luck. An associate of Meyer asked for a loan on a Colorado silver mine. Shrewdly, Meyer said he would rather be a partner. When the mine did not pay, he went west and supervised it. Soon the whole family was dabbling in many metals, and in 1901 their interests helped form the American Smelting & Refining Co., "The Smelter Trust...