Word: coal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consequences of the inability of our Government to cope with the demands of coal miners may be the strongest argument yet for nuclear energy...
Your cover for the article on the coal crisis [March 20] is probably the most poignant you have ever presented...
...works in a dull, hard, sometimes hazardous and completely dead-end job for about half the hourly rate coal miners get, and who will have to pay increased energy prices because of their inflated demands, I am totally without sympathy for their self-pitying whining about the slavelike conditions they claim to work under...
...watched my grandfather live a life struggling for each breath he took because of black-lung disease. I remember him covered with the black coal dust of the mines. How many coal users think of the miner as they load their furnaces with this precious fuel? I am with the miners...
...Arnold Ray Miller, 54, beleaguered president of the United Mine Workers union; with a mild stroke suffered two days after signing the controversial contract that ended his 5½-month grind of negotiations with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association and brought disgruntled miners back to work last week; in Miami...