Prevention of Major Disasters in Coal Mines: Hearings ... on H.R. 7408, June 10, 11, 12, 1952U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952 - 254 pages |
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... Kentucky , West Virginia , Pennsylvania , and Illinois , and Ohio ? Mr. SCHORR . Yes ; and individual operators in Indiana , also . Mr. LUCAS . What proportion , Mr. Schorr , of your membership is comprised of small operators employing ...
... Kentucky , West Virginia , Pennsylvania , and Illinois , and Ohio ? Mr. SCHORR . Yes ; and individual operators in Indiana , also . Mr. LUCAS . What proportion , Mr. Schorr , of your membership is comprised of small operators employing ...
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... Kentucky telling the people of Kentucky they are the finest people on the face of the earth , run the best government , and elect the best Congressman of any people in America . Mr. PERKINS . I have told them that , but I am still for ...
... Kentucky telling the people of Kentucky they are the finest people on the face of the earth , run the best government , and elect the best Congressman of any people in America . Mr. PERKINS . I have told them that , but I am still for ...
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... Kentucky and Ten- nessee and all the other places where they do not use rock dust , where they do not use water , where they do not do anything about that dust , the use of black power is a daily invitation to disaster , and it is ab ...
... Kentucky and Ten- nessee and all the other places where they do not use rock dust , where they do not use water , where they do not do anything about that dust , the use of black power is a daily invitation to disaster , and it is ab ...
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... Kentucky . You are from New York . You are from Alabama . You are from West Virginia . You are from California . Here is one from Pennsylvania . Here is another one from Pennsylvania . There are a whole bunch of them here , a whole ...
... Kentucky . You are from New York . You are from Alabama . You are from West Virginia . You are from California . Here is one from Pennsylvania . Here is another one from Pennsylvania . There are a whole bunch of them here , a whole ...
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... Kentucky - Tennessee - Virginia district . Chairman BARDEN . May I make one inquiry here , to straighten my thinking out a little bit . What makes the northern and south- ern coal operators ? What is it - the Potomac River , or is it ...
... Kentucky - Tennessee - Virginia district . Chairman BARDEN . May I make one inquiry here , to straighten my thinking out a little bit . What makes the northern and south- ern coal operators ? What is it - the Potomac River , or is it ...
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Page 6 - ... (i) Any member of the Board may sign and issue subpenas for the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of relevant papers, books and documents, and administer oaths. Witnesses summoned before the Board shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses In the courts of the United States.
Page 6 - Commission." (d) The principal office of the Commission shall be in the District of Columbia. Whenever the Commission deems that the convenience of the public or of the parties may be promoted, or delay or expense may be minimized, it may hold hearings or conduct other proceedings at any other place.
Page 6 - In case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpena served upon any person under this subsection, the district court of the United States for any district in which such person is found or resides or...
Page 6 - Reasonable notice must first be given in writing by the party or his attorney proposing to take such deposition to the opposite party or his attorney of record, as either may be nearest, which notice shall state the name of the witness and the time and place of the taking of his deposition.
Page 5 - Any Commissioner may be removed by the President for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
Page 5 - President at the time of nomination, one at the end of one year, one at the end of two years, one at the end of three years, one at the end of four years, and one at the end of five years, after the date of the enactment of this title.
Page 9 - In bituminous-coal and lignite mines the quantity of air reaching the last open crosscut in any pair or set of entries shall not be less than six thousand cubic feet a minute, except that the quantity of air reaching the last open crosscut In any pair or set of entries in pillar sections may be less than six thousand cubic feet a minute if not less than six thousand cubic feet of air a minute is being delivered to the Intake end of the pillar line.
Page 9 - ... the volume and velocity of the current of air shall be sufficient to dilute, render harmless, and to carry away, flammable...
Page 6 - Any person may be compelled to appear and depose and to produce documentary evidence in the same manner as witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify and produce documentary evidence before the commission as hereinbefore provided.
Page 6 - Any person may be compelled to appear and depose, and to produce books, papers, or documents, in the same manner as witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify and produce like documentary evidence before the Board, as provided in subsection (i).