Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fund hires some doctors directly; on a contractual basis, it pays other doctors a fee for each service rendered. By constructing hospitals the Fund attracted young doctors and raised the standards of medical care in the coal fields of Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia--areas long marked by high mortality rates and low doctor-patient ratios...
...from the Priests. The complaints are many, for the Spanish worker puts in longer hours for less pay than almost any other worker in Western Europe, and strikes are legally banned. When El Caudillo granted substantial wage boosts for the 60,000 striking Asturias coal miners last summer, he merely whetted the appetites of workers in the rest of the country; another increase last Jan. i, raising unskilled laborers from a minimum 60? to $1 per day, did not help the millions of skilled workers above this meager floor...
...Daddy Ni cared more about education than anything else, even Rugby football, and from Richard's earliest memory, Daddy Ni and Richard's brothers Ivor, Tom, Will and Dai fixed their attention on Richard and said, "You shall go to Oxford." All the brothers save Graham had worked the coal face (Richard himself never worked in the '""s), and some of them went on to other positions in local government, the police, and the army. In Richard, however, the family planted its dream of something better beyond the valley. "The idea of a Welsh miner's son going to Oxford...
...baldheaded, spade-bearded little Lothario killed ten women is not shown, but his method of disposing of their remains is made clear: in the kitchen is a long black table, a meat grinder, and a small black stove. One victim sees the coal scuttles for her own cremation, and noxious black smoke puffing from Landru's chimney*hints at similar fates for others. Each smoke signal cues a clip from a World War I newsreel showing doughboys going over the top to their death. Chabrol thus seems to justify his Landru (to whom he and Sagan are lavishly sympathetic...
Joseph M. Russin '64, who recently returned from eastern Kentucky where he researched an article for the CRIMSON, told the group that "there needs to be action beyond the coal fields--there just isn't enough work in the mines for all the miners." He said, however, that the miners themselves do not understand the need for this approach, and that instead they feel a strong union is the real answer to their problems...