Word: mining
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Vincent E. O'Neill, 50, member of the Board of Governors and onetime Vice President of the New York Curb Exchange explained why he was retiring. Said he: "Some years ago I asked a broker friend of mine why he was leaving the Street and he said, 'I prefer to travel on a steamer rather than in a wheel chair,' and I've never forgotten that...
...famous door, was it open or shut?" cried Don José. "Good God! Open or shut? It was half open, and so I went in by it, as I am not accustomed to getting through closed doors. . . . My good name, my dignity, my integrity . . . is not mine but the sole inheritance of my sons. . . . I could not consent to being considered more or less as an aristocratic reveller calling late at a house of ill-fame and knocking at the door...
...Ibrahim, "kept my body without nourishment and my soul in torment for five days. On the sixth he called me into his office. On the table was a platter of tasty chicken with rice, a creamy dessert and a dish of applesauce. All of these things were to be mine if I would make a complete confession. Because of my hunger I told him a lot of things that were not true...