Area Redevelopment: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2663, a Bill to Establish an Effective Program to Alleviate Conditions of Excessive Unemployment in Certan Economically Depressed Areas ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 1170 pages |
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... Mines in West Virginia are now getting out as much coal with one - fourth the workers needed previously because of ... mining machines are brought in to maintain equal or decreased production and miners are dropped from the rolls . No ...
... Mines in West Virginia are now getting out as much coal with one - fourth the workers needed previously because of ... mining machines are brought in to maintain equal or decreased production and miners are dropped from the rolls . No ...
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... mines are producing coal . As the Senator well knows , there have been definite freight car shortages . Some mines have been shut down , because of freight car shortages in the State , 3 or 4 days a week . Even with coal being mined in ...
... mines are producing coal . As the Senator well knows , there have been definite freight car shortages . Some mines have been shut down , because of freight car shortages in the State , 3 or 4 days a week . Even with coal being mined in ...
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... mining machines could and would be absorbed into jobs in other industries . But they are not being absorbed . They ... miners without jobs . Many of them never will regain jobs in the mines . This is a cold , hard fact which the UMWA has ...
... mining machines could and would be absorbed into jobs in other industries . But they are not being absorbed . They ... miners without jobs . Many of them never will regain jobs in the mines . This is a cold , hard fact which the UMWA has ...
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... mining of gold , silver , copper , zinc , and iron ore , and on the exploitation of forests which now have disappeared . In more recent times , however , it is more often the dynamic pace of technological change which directly or ...
... mining of gold , silver , copper , zinc , and iron ore , and on the exploitation of forests which now have disappeared . In more recent times , however , it is more often the dynamic pace of technological change which directly or ...
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... MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN AMERICA account for 51 % -ALL MFG & MINING COMPANIES ----- SALES ( $ 136.8 BILLION ) $ 270 BILLION ASSETS 56 % ( $ 107.9 BILLION ) $ 192 BILLION- NET PROFITS 66 % ( $ 8.3 BILLION ) - $ 12.5 BILLION ...
... MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN AMERICA account for 51 % -ALL MFG & MINING COMPANIES ----- SALES ( $ 136.8 BILLION ) $ 270 BILLION ASSETS 56 % ( $ 107.9 BILLION ) $ 192 BILLION- NET PROFITS 66 % ( $ 8.3 BILLION ) - $ 12.5 BILLION ...
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