Word: coale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning last week, 99 coal miners on the midnight-to-8-a.m. "cateye" shift were working the rich bituminous veins of the Consolidation Coal Co.'s No. 9 mine in northern West Virginia. Suddenly, deep in the earth, an explosion thundered through the eight-mile-long labyrinth of shafts and tunnels. Shock waves rippled outward for miles, jolting the Marion County mining community into frightened wakefulness. At daybreak, thick clouds of greasy black smoke billowed 150 ft. into the grey morning...
...explosion in West Frankfort, Ill.* Muffled explosions shook Consol No. 9 for three days, preventing rescue workers from going in after possible survivors. No one could say what set off the first blast, but once the fire was under way, it spread rapidly, feeding on combustible coal dust and deadly methane. Though the mine had been checked regularly with gas-measuring safety devices, miners called No. 9 "hot" before the explosion. William Park, a U.S. Bureau of Mines official, confirmed that it was "extremely gassy...
When Prime Minister John G. Gorton recently toured northern Australia's coal, oil, iron and bauxite fields, the trip turned out to be less than a happy inspection. The assessments that the fields are among the world's richest new natural resources are fair dinkum. But at each stop, when Gorton asked his hosts about the Australian share in their projects, the answers were disheartening...
...ball club meant to towns like Graceville, Fla., and Valdosta, Ga., and Hornell, N.Y. and Thibodaux, La. Nor what it meant to the men who played it; men with names like Ernie Oravetz and Al Rivenbark and R.C. Otey and Country Brown, who would have spent their lives in coal mines or cotton mills had there not been a chance to make a living playing baseball...
...coal mines," Oravetz said. "My old man couldn't play ball, so he was a coal miner all his life. Now he's blind from working in those mines. That's why you don't catch me bitching too much about not making the big leagues. Hell, I'm lucky...