Word: lungfuls
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...already served notice that when union contracts expire next year, fat wage increases will not be enough to satisfy him. He will push even harder for generous fringe benefits and, above all, tough safety rules. Coal mining is a hazardous occupation, and Miller himself suffers from black-lung disease, contracted because of a lifetime of working in the pits. It has left him with a pasty skin and anemic look that, combined with steel-gray hair, makes him appear at least ten years older than his actual...
...drawn full-force into the union reform movement in 1969 when he helped to lead a series of wildcat strikes that forced the West Virginia legislature to vote compensation for black-lung victims. Boyle opposed the effort. Says Miller's press aide Bernard Aronson of the atmosphere they encountered at U.M.W. headquarters: "It was like the Wizard of Oz. There was this screen and a lot of smoke and noise and light coming from up above. When we took the screen away we discovered the real secret: nothing was going on up there at all, just a bunch...
Competing with an Earth Day Rally at the other side of the Common, union spokesmen described what they called the "hazardous safety conditions in Shell refineries which cause air pollution and "rainbow lung"--a lung disorder caused by chemicals that affects workers in the refineries...
...conventional pacemaker, implanted under the skin of the chest, must have its battery changed about every two years. For 16 cardiac patients last week, that recurrent surgery became a thing of the past. In operations performed at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and the National Heart and Lung Institute in Bethesda, Md., nuclear-powered pacemakers were installed in their chests...
Died. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, 72, creator of Dagwood and Blondie, the cartoon couple whose exploits are still followed by some 75 million newspaper readers around the world; of a lung embolism; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Young's original 1930 comic strip portrayed Dagwood Bumstead as the well-heeled playboy son of an industrialist and Blondie Boopadoop as a money-hungry, man-chasing flapper. The characters had little appeal for Depression audiences, so Young married the two in 1933, eventually gave them a son and daughter and all the trappings of middle-class life. Dagwood evolved into the harried...