Word: dust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Safety Administration estimates that three out of every five miners who have been in the pits for 20 years or more have lost a finger in a conveyor belt or some other machinery. In addition, 215,000 miners are disabled by black-lung disease, caused by breathing coal dust. Says Miller: "A miner who gets black lung gives up ten or 15 years of his life. And it's a helluva way to go. It took my stepfather five years to die of it, and in all that time he couldn't breathe when he lay down...
...near the mine face, visibility diminishes, and the air thickens with black dust. The miners begin to clear their throats and spit. The area around the mine face looks like a small construction site, with piles of boards, bolts, rails, ties and electrical power equipment. The wires on this equipment are regularly checked lest a miner be electrocuted. Facing the wall of coal is a continuous coal mining machine called "the beast." The machine's whirling blades chew into the seam with a roaring noise like an avalanche, spewing chunks of coal back into waiting coal cars, which...
...four decades in West Virginia mines. When he started out at age 13, he loaded coal for 17? per ton-earning about $4.40 a day. Companies then forced miners to buy then-own picks, shovels and other equipment and did not even provide fans to blow away the coal dust. Echard lost a thumb coupling coal cars and injured his back three times. Yet he encouraged his grandson to get into the mines. "I told him it was a good job," says Echard. "Coal's the thing of the future...
GLENN ENGLISH. Oklahoma's congressional delegation went all-Democratic as English, former executive director of the state Democratic party, knocked off the highly conservative John N. Happy Camp in a rural Dust Bowl district. English, 33, an oil-and gas-leasing operator, drove some 40,000 miles to meet the area's voters, promising them hard work in Washington even though he frankly admitted that "there's no way I'll solve the problems of the world." The candor was appreciated, but English got a bigger and wholly coincidental lift from a surprising source: a flood...
...scene Wayne clapped Kate's shoulder and shoved her so forcefully to the ground that she scraped her knee against a stone. In a moment a Band-Aid was applied, her hair rearranged, and she uncomplainingly reshot the scene. Wayne developed a cough from the dust. Between camera takes he hacked fitfully and drank endless glasses of water. He was also a bit woozy from having been knocked cold by his seven-year-old daughter, who had accidentally clobbered him on his right temple with a nine iron a few days before...