Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When we control the production of coal, we hold the vitals of our society right in our hands. I can squeeze, twist, and pull until we get the inevitable victory...
...immigrant miner from Wales, was blacklisted by his company's management for his role in a bitter, late-19th century strike John L. quit school before he finished the eighth grade, and by age 15 he had followed his father to the pits. In Colorado he mined coal. Then it was copper in Montana, silver in Utah, gold in Arizona. In 1911, Lewis went to work for Samuel Gompers, then president of the American Federation of Labor and the greatest labor tactician of the era. Because he could back his sharp tongue with a strong, 210-lb. frame, Lewis...
...Wednesday, you make the move from whatever coal cellar the Registrar's Office has assigned you, to Emerson 105 (or the Geological Lecture Hall), thus enabling you to admit every student who came on Monday and thensome. It is common form, at this second meeting, to express contempt for the building's impersonal architecture and the room's awesome size. No explanation is required for the decision to accept all your applicants, save to say you found choosing among them impossible...
...businesses during the years after my graduation, until 1930," Hofer recalls. "I graduated in 1921 and I worked for ten years and I hated it. I wanted always to get out as soon as I could. . . I was in a horrible thing called the coal business, and I also got into the security business. I never made anything out of the coal business, but I speculated and made a little out of the securities, and I got out. I wanted a way of life, a way of life rather than just to make money...
This tension comes partly from the changing economic situation of Wales, the decline of labor in coal-mining. Partly, too, change and newness come from the story's being told through the eyes of a small boy, to whom everything is new and personal. But the film's simultaneous fragility and dynamism work only because Ford's method so perfectly integrates these sources of tension. The way he stylizes his characters through their sentiments. That Ford manages to create a society from action so charged with individual character, so devoid of fixed habit, and that he manages t make...