Word: ashland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oceana's miners would go back to work if the Government seized the mines, but not under Taft-Hartley. At Connie Cook's Ashland Oil station, outside town, where striking miners sip coffee around an old space heater, William ("Fats") Stafford, 52, expressed a prevailing view. "I love this country and I had two sons serve in Viet Nam," he said. "I abide by the laws of this country, but not Taft-Hartley. That's slave labor, and there's no penalties in it against the companies...
Cheryl Hildebrand Ashland, Ohio...
...retired union members if the strike continues beyond Jan. 1. Some retirees take grim satisfaction in the fact that they contracted black lung, a generally incurable disease caused by inhaling coal dust. That ailment guarantees them lifelong disability payments. "If we lost our pension, I could survive," says Ashland ("Hawk") Howard, 62, a retiree in David, Ky. "But if I did not collect for black lung, I'd really be in trouble." Howard gets a pension of $225 a month and a disability payment...
...reserves from conventional sources. Burning the oil out of the shale-the most promising method-would require a market price of perhaps as much as $25 per bbl. to make it profitable. Yet even at the present average U.S. price of $11.50 per bbl. for newly discovered domestic oil, Ashland Oil and Occidental Petroleum last month were given federal approval to begin development of a joint shale-oil project in western Colorado...
...twelve murals they have painted are vivid, unabashed celebrations of rural Wisconsin life. On Ken Howell's dairy barn near Ashland, an ore boat steams across the clapboard siding, while an orange and crimson sun descends in a peacock blue sky. At Oak Creek, a 16-ft. cultivator depicted on the John and Arthur Mahr barn stands amid a luminous crazy quilt of rolling hillsides. Past poster-bright stands of timber and grazing deer, a lumber train with trim red wheels chugs across the Lewis Furchtenicht barn in Spooner. The facade of Patrick Hennessey's barn in Dodgeville...