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...many risks and too little inspection in the coal mines...
Lillie Hamilton can look out the back window of her boxy clapboard house in Mink Branch, Ky., and see the family business, a small coal mine burrowed into the hillside. One chill morning last month, seven men-including three of her sons and a grandson-were wedged 700 ft. down a narrow tunnel, crawling on their knees and blasting loose great chunks of bituminous coal with an explosive gel. Suddenly, a monstrous explosion shattered the Appalachian quiet. The Joyce Ann shaft (named for a Hamilton widow) had become a quarter-mile-long cannon, and the men inside fodder...
...martial law violation so far, Ewa Kubasiewicz was given ten years in jail for organizing a strike at a Gdansk merchant marine college where she was a student. A Katowice court gave jail terms of three to four years to four alleged organizers of a strike at the Wujek coal mine, where at least seven civilians were killed in clashes with police on Dec. 16. The provincial prosecutor in Gdansk said that Solidarity's second-ranking leader, Miroslaw Krupinski, would be tried for trying to organize a national strike committee from the Lenin Shipyard after military rule was imposed...
This forbidding continent has lately become more than the testing ground for explorers in mukluks and wooden sledges. It is being eyed acutely for mineral wealth, once deemed far too difficult and expensive to mine. Geologists have already confirmed that it holds great quantities of iron and coal, including perhaps the world's largest coal field, running more than 1,500 miles along the Transantarctic Mountains. There are strong indications of other treasures as well. More than 200 million years ago, before the world's continents began their slow drift apart, Antarctica was attached to South America, Africa...
Certain regions of the U.S. have always seemed to lure venturesome people more than others. At the beginning of the 20th century, many automotive pioneers came to Detroit. There they found a deep-waterport and a good railroad system that gave easy access to supplies of coal and iron and a convenient way to ship their new cars back to local markets. They also found a prosperous wagon-making industry with a pool of skilled craftsmen, as well as a bustling atmosphere that encouraged innovation and manufacturing...