Word: lungful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's second largest textile industry, is notorious for its unethical and illegal labor practices. It pays its workers less than any other industry in the country. It combats workers' attempts to organize with blatant force or threats of dismissal. It lays off workers incapacitated with the brown lung disease contracted in the mills, refusing to provide compensation. But J.P. Stevens is not solely responsible for its workers' inability to organize against these abuses. Rise Gonna Rise argues that Stevens' workers are also prevented from organizing by their own nostalgic feelings and deference...
...RETIRED laborer, wheezing with cotton-induced brown lung disease like many retired J.P. Stevens workers, tells of her childhood visists to her parents in a Stevens plant. Since skipping through the cotton dust around the plant as a child, she had known she would work for Stevens, like everyone else in Roanoke Rapids, N.C. Although she sees Stevens as a paternal company, she condemns it for paying her less than minimum wage and then forcing her to retire because of the brown lung disease she contracted while working in their mills. Despite her bitterness, she is reluctant to fully support...
Where China has industrialized, it has been at a price. Peking and other cities reek from the effusion of belching smokestacks. Water pollution is so serious a problem that no one drinks unboiled water. Doctors report increases in the rates of cardiovascular and lung diseases, as well as cancer, all of which may have some environmental origin...
DIED. John Cromwell, 91, stage and screen actor, director and producer for more than 70 years; of a blood clot in the lung; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Lured from Broadway to Hollywood in 1928, he directed Tom Sawyer, Of Human Bondage and Algiers. A founder of the Screen Directors' Guild, Cromwell was hounded out of Hollywood in the early '50s for his pro-labor leanings. Last year he reappeared on the screen in Robert Altman's A Wedding...
...identify which cancers are due to radiation and not to other causes. For this reason, the nuclear industry can disingenously challenge critics to point to a single radiation fatality. Gofman compares the nuclear and tobacco industries in this respect. Cigarettes may be linked to 90 per cent of lung cancers, but the individual smoker can't prove his own cancer isn't traceable to something else. Of course, unlike the average Harrisburg resident, the smoker chooses to pay his money and take his chances...