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...into Buffalo Creek anymore (where it killed all the fish), the company began to build the first of three dams that would create ponds where it could dump the water. And the company could also kill two birds with one stone: it would build the dams out of the gob pile that just lay smoldering beside the mine--unhealthy situation that. You couldn't really call it a dam--no engineering, no overflow, no drains, just back some trucks up to the hollow mouth, and dump this waste in--there was your...
Still, these minor defects do not mar his skills as a lawyer or the service he did the people of Buffalo Creek. Still, four years later unsafe gob piles periodically overflow in back hollows of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. They are conscientiously disregarded by company officials and state inspectors. The people of Buffalo Creek are still trying to put their lives back together; some still live in the temporary housing the government moved in after the flood. From Stern's account, for the people of Buffalo Creek and the Pittston Company it all came down to one question...
...amount of rescue work, however, could still the acrimonious debate that erupted over who was responsible for the disaster. Slag dams -or gob piles, as they are often called in the region-are an ugly but common sight in West Virginia. Like the one at Buffalo Creek, which was owned by the Buffalo Mining Co., a subsidiary of the Manhattan-based Pittston Co., they are built up from the residue that results from washing coal. The slime and silt settle, and the water that backs up behind the slag heap is often used again for washing the coal. Such dams...
this is won of thowse buks witch purtens two bee the diry of a reel new england boy with speling like this, saucers is sorcers an job is gob, wile sumtimes awful is awful and sumtimes it is auful. and sometimes Henry Shute spells just like yew an mee. so yew gnow it has two bee a perfickly disengenyewus purrformince. wel awlright xcept the gokes is sumthing feerse-like piching an old lunker eal plum in the senter of the ferst Congrigasionale Chirch picknic with the wimmen timing back summersets an having spells. wonce in a wile tho, it seams...
...Equally well integrated into the film's conventions are certain conspicuous parts of the sound track, as when Leopold Bloom (Milo O'Shea) hears a cuckoo clock chanting "Cuckold! Cuckold! Cuckold!" or some barnyard noises Bloom hears in a tavern, when a greasy slab of meat falls from the gob of a man sitting near...