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...mine had a good record of safety. State mine inspectors had checked and okayed it on May 29. The night of July 23, the large, 37-year-old mine had as usual been rock-dusted to localize possible gas explosions. But the next afternoon, while a full shift of 264 miners worked underground, a crushing blast shook one of No. 8's 500-ft.-deep galleries. Near the source of the explosion, 27 miners died, five were injured. The cause: "Ignition of methane...
...complex and so deep are the basic beliefs of the Germans that only a united effort could succeed in changing them. Thus up to now there has been no real shift in the German mentality, they claimed...
Molotov had hurried to Paris with an 89-man staff (including five bodyguards), which had been assembled overnight with Stakhanovite speed. At first, it looked as though Molotov intended to play along with the American plan for a while, and later try to shift the onus of a possible failure on to the U.S. How that might happen was explained by one diplomat in Paris: "Ice cream would have a better chance of surviving in hell than a big credit plan which includes the Russians would have in the U.S. Congress...
...place to go when he does. Columbia University had asked him to be its president, a job vacant since the retirement in 1946 of blind, aged Nicholas Murray Butler, who had served for 44 years. The probable time for 56-year-old Ike Eisenhower's shift: some time after...
...Funchal in the Madeiras, where they put in to shift ballast, Skipper Seligman took on one of the trophies of the voyage. The horde of bumboat-men around the ship included one rascally old cicerone who presented a letter purporting to be from the captain of another ship...