Word: centralia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Badminton Game. The hardest blow came from Illinois' Republican Governor William Stratton. He had spent the day in the downstate mining city of Centralia. When he got back to the executive mansion in Springfield after midnight, he heard about Wilson's dogs. Governor Stratton was due to introduce Wilson at the Chicago dinner in 18 hours' time; a much-perturbed politician, he decided against...
...Centralia, Wash., reporters seized upon a theory propounded by Building Materials Dealer Jack Scherer: windshield glass is made from silica sand, which abounds on the Pacific shores of the State of Washington. Silica sand is full of sand-flea eggs. So, when the windshields get warm enough, the eggs hatch and the fleas have to chip the glass to get out. When he learned that his facetiously offered explanation had been wired across the country, the astonished Scherer granted that it was no more ridiculous than some others that had been publicized...
...Ross, who became President Truman's press secretary after leaving the PD. The paper itself has won five "meritorious public service" Pulitzers: for exposing wholesale padding of vote registration lists in St. Louis elections (1937), its campaign to rid the city of smoke (1941), an investigation of the Centralia mine disaster (1948), rooting out newspapermen on the Illinois state payroll (1950), and exposing corruption in the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
Coverage of the Centralia mine disaster, in which in 111 miners were killed, was typical of how the P-D works. In 1947, after the last body was pulled from the mine, scores of newsmen from other papers went home. Not the PD. It doubled its staff on the assignment, in due time established what it suspected: that the State Department of Mines was shaking down mine owners and overlooking dangerous working conditions. As a result, Illinois mine-safety laws were tightened...
Bodies in the Gym. Rescuers brought only bad news to the surface: New Orient No. 2 was the worst U.S. mine disaster since the explosion at Centralia No. 5, which killed in miners in March 1947.* At week's end, 62 blanket-covered bodies had been carried out of the elevator, past weeping women, to ambulances. Barring a miracle, there would be 43 more...