Word: miners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week Osage was rocked awake by a blast bigger and closer than the ones that every miner had learned to sleep through. The explosion of almost a full case of dynamite-which any real man in Osage can handle in the dark-gutted the town's biggest building, the 17-room school. Sheriff Charles J. Whiston, 42, quickly reinforced by squads of FBI men, found that the bomb had been set off by mining detonation wire, which would work from the headlamp battery a miner wears on his hip, went to work on such fragmentary other clues...
...four days, enough water, when rationed from a tiny aspirin bottle, to last almost as long. Said one survivor proudly: "No man took more than his share." Toward the last they gathered their own urine in tin cups, sipped it and used it to moisten their lips in the miner's standard survival procedure. Next evening Prince Philip, returning home from a visit to Canada, stopped at Springhill's hospital, and went from bed to bed with words of encouragement...
Hope for the remaining 48 miners still missing rose briefly, then ebbed as the DOSCO rescue director announced that there was really no chance. The digging went on. At 4:45 a.m. on the ninth day, a miner 12,600 ft. from the pithead heard scratchings. "It sounded like a cat," he said. "I couldn't believe my ears." Again there was a frantic scrambling through 12 ft. of loose debris, and two hours, 40 minutes later seven more survivors began to come out. At week's end, 29 were still missing...
Chosen by the staff of 16 were John S. Pfarr, editor-in-chief; Bill O. Wright, business manager; John P. Moriarty, managing editor; Richard H. Miner, news editor; John M. Carroll, sports editor; Mary L. Denton and Linda Greenberg, Radcliffe editors; William S. Dillingham, production editor; and Roy J. Sonderling, photography editor...
...23rd child of an Archibald Patch, Pa. coal miner. Gibbons has long kept his gunbarrel eyes fixed on personal power. He armed himself with courses at the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, organized Chicago schoolteachers, then gravitated to St. Louis to stitch a handful of loose-knit locals into a Gibbons whole. When this was gathered into the Teamster fold, Hoffa and Gibbons formed an alliance under which Hoffa is the muscleman and Gibbons the strategist. "Gibbons," Jimmy once said in undisguised admiration, "there are some men in Detroit who dislike me-but those fellows back there in St. Louis...