"I've had to drop friends of mine from my roster," Ms. Rankin said, "because they made ridiculous demands on the crews, such as insisting they use the family's vacuum to clean up the place".
According to the company, the earnings drop-off was a result of mining companies and other customers scaling back on purchases due to slumping commodity prices, the problems in the credit markets, as well as generally difficult market conditions.
During the last weeks of the war, B-29s continued to drop large numbers of mines off Japan and the campaign was expanded into Korean waters.
Similarly, when Bitcoin's price falls, marginal miners drop out, as the cost of mining bitcoins starts to exceed the rewards.
Last year, the number of mining fatalities dropped by one-fifth to 3,786 deaths, still the highest figure in the world.
"It's true," Rupert Sanders told the BBC, "but there's a lot more sweat and tears than there are drops of blood of mine in that film".
Around 0200 on 28 May, the ship was attacked again by the Fourth Destroyer Division which dropped six strings of mines ahead of her.
The day I was dropped a friend of mine who was a big backup singer said, "You really shouldn't be alone today.
The chipmaker plunged 18.8% to $164.43 after saying it had a large number of unsold chips because of a big drop in the mining of cryptocurrencies.
In a sign of slowing growth, shares of mining companies fell as iron ore prices dropped to the lowest level since 2009.
