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A pictorial history of underground mining in the Central Mining District of Grant County New Mexico
Author : Christopher Saxman
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Abandoned mines
ISBN : 9780986115646
A pictorial history of underground mining in the Central Mining District of Grant County New Mexico
Author : Christopher Saxman
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2023-01-20
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ISBN : 9780986115691
History of underground mining in the Central Mining District
Author : Raymond Caballero
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0806165901
For twenty years after World War II, the United States was in the grips of its second and most oppressive red scare. The hysteria was driven by conflating American Communists with the real Soviet threat. The anticommunist movement was named after Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, but its true dominant personality was FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who promoted and implemented its repressive policies and laws. The national fear over communism generated such anxiety that Communist Party members and many left-wing Americans lost the laws’ protections. Thousands lost their jobs, careers, and reputations in the hysteria, though they had committed no crime and were not disloyal to the United States. Among those individuals who experienced more of anticommunism’s varied repressive measures than anyone else was Clinton Jencks. Jencks, a decorated war hero, adopted as his own the Mexican American fight for equal rights in New Mexico’s mining industry. In 1950 he led a local of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers in the famed Empire Zinc strike—memorialized in the blacklisted 1954 film Salt of the Earth—in which wives and mothers replaced strikers on the picket line after an injunction barred the miners themselves. But three years after the strike, Jencks was arrested and charged with falsely denying that he was a Communist and was sentenced to five years in prison. In Jencks v. United States (1957), the Supreme Court overturned his conviction in a landmark decision that mandated providing to an accused person previously hidden witness statements, thereby making cross-examination truly effective. In McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks, Caballero reveals for the first time that the FBI and the prosecution knew all along that Clinton Jencks was innocent. Jencks’s case typified the era, exposing the injustice that many suffered at the hands of McCarthyism. The tale of Jencks’s quest for justice provides a fresh glimpse into the McCarthy era’s oppression, which irrevocably damaged the lives, careers, and reputations of thousands of Americans.
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Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Engineering
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Author : Horace Jared Stevens
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Page : 906 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Mineral industries
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Coal mines and mining
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Mining engineering
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,93 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Mineral industries
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Author : Zhifa Yang
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1315647109
Ancient Underground Opening and Preservation contains 59 papers presented at the International Symposium on Scientific Problems and Long-term Preservation of Largescale Ancient Underground Engineering (Longyou, China, 23-26 October 2015). The contributions focus on scientific and technical issues related to long-term preservation of large-scale anc
Author : Jeannette Graulau
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0300249578
Silver mining was a capitalist business long before the supposed origin of modern capitalism Hundreds of years before a sixteenth†‘century crisis in European agriculture led to the origins of capital, investment, and finance, the silver mining industry exhibited many of the features of modern capitalism. Silver mines were large†‘scale businesses that demanded large investments and steady cash flow, achieved by spreading that risk through fungible shares and creating legal structures to protect entrepreneurs from financial disaster. Jeannette Graulau argues that mining preceded agriculture as the first true capitalist enterprise of the modern world.