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...gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood...
Eerie Digs. The dangers that miners face routinely each day would be considered harrowing by most American workers. At the Shoemaker Mine near Benwood, W. Va., for example, a miner's day begins at the bathhouse, a big stark room with showers. Miners' work pants, boots, jackets and gloves are in buckets hung from the high ceiling on ropes that look like stalactites. After changing, the men hang their numbered brass tags on a board at the mine entrance; a tag that is still there after the shift ends alerts the rest of the crew that a miner...
...rate that works out to an average of 100 per month for the past 100 years. Sometimes they die in explosions and fire like the Mannington disaster of 1968 that killed 78 (and Monongah, 1907. 307 dead: Centralia. 1947. 111 dead: West Frankfort, 1951, 119 dead: or Benwood, 1924, 119 dead: or Eccles, 1914. 183 dead...
Last week Georgetown University's Dr. O. Benwood Hunter Jr. reported that cortisone and ACTH will do this in most cases. The level of the mother's hormone secretions is carefully checked as pregnancy advances, and if it indicates that the baby's red blood cells are not forming properly, or are being destroyed, the mother gets cortisone. (Sometimes she also gets ACTH to step up her own and the baby's production of adrenal hormones like cortisone...
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