Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mine shaft at Coalbrook North. As a white man passed, she clutched his legs and moaned, "Baas, please, baas, tell me where my man is." Five hundred feet below, her man, and 439 others, all but six of them Africans, were trapped behind thousands of tons of rock and coal in a half-mile-long gallery of No. 10 section...
...main tunnel. Everybody got out in time. When the dust settled, the miners went back in to clear the rubble with no particular fear, for ledoma (earthquake) is a commonplace to the natives who work the Rand and Free State mines. But then, without warning, the wall along the coal seam collapsed with a roar, and a gale-force gust of wind tossed men, machinery and pit props like feathers in its wake. Ventilation fans were smashed and behind the mile-long debris most of the men lay trapped with 70 pit ponies...
...Britain's, the lung-cancer death rate is markedly higher in Britain than in the U.S.? One factor is obvious but too often overlooked, said London's Dr. Patrick Lawther: U.S. pollution is mainly industrial, whereas Britain's comes largely from the burning of soft (bituminous) coal in open grates. And the castle that is every Englishman's home discharges the heavy resulting soot into the air near lung level from low chimneys. As for the difference in lung-cancer death rates between men and women (which the tobacco industry maintains is far greater than...
Strike for a Kingdom, by Menna Gallic. Welsh coal miners strike, and so does a murderer in this sorrow-laced, comic novel by a woman who writes well...
Murder is at the heart of the book. The unloved manager of a coal mine is knocked on the head and tumbled into a river one dark night. There is ample reason for doing him in; the strike, a disastrous eruption in 1926, has been bitter, the manager was a harsh boss, and he has been slipping up the back stairs to visit the wife of one of the miners...