Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arnold Miller, a coal miner running for the state legislature in West Virginia, said miners were dying by the hundreds of lung disease incurred under unhealthy working conditions. Dr. Donald Rasmussen, who works at the Appalachian Regional Hospital, said that increased dust control regulations would reduce the deaths from black lung disease by 90 per cent...
...fallibility of man and his machines. The cause of the malfunction will have to be established by a painstaking inquiry. Meanwhile space exploration was humanized again, as it had been during the pioneer flights and on the night when Neil Armstrong made man's first footprint in moon dust. No longer was it an issue of U.S. technocracy, or how many billions the space program costs, or what the funds buy. Rather it was the guts, wits and will of a handful of men matched against the enormousness of space...
...expect it. They pursue fame, fortune and glory. They strive to found dynasties, subdue the earth, fathom the depths of the sea and the limits of space. In an instant of high-arching pride as men vault to these ambitious goals, fate fells them, and they return to the dust from which they came. The ancient Greek tragedies are cautionary tales of how men incur the wrath of the gods by trying to be gods...
...help: a country no longer very much concerned with coal miners, now that the last spec??? ??? disaster is a year and a half behind us. For the coal miners of West Virginia there is nothing much in the future to count on: except the slow death of dust in the mines...
...miners went to the union and pleaded for leadership. There wasn't any. The dust was thick in the mines: nobody seemed to care. Then, in May, 1968, 25 men were trapped for ten days in a mine at Hominy Falls: Four died. The rest came out, in a spectacular resence heavily covered by the national press. Suddenly people were aware ? a little-of hard times in the mines. And West Virginia miners were getting together to form the Black Lung Association. They covered the state, working with Dr. Buff and building up organizational strength...