Word: miners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Gary Miner, a marine-supply company manager, entered Las Vegas' Sunrise Hospital for heart treatment, he hardly expected that he would come away with an all-expenses-paid vacation to Hawaii. Overcrowded on weekdays and underused on weekends, Sunrise is solving its problem in true Las Vegas fashion: a lottery for all those who agree to enter the hospital on weekends, with a weekly prize of a $4,000 vacation. Since the game was started 14 months ago, admissions have jumped by 60%, to about 85 each weekend. The hospital estimates that this brings a $2.5 million increase...
...countenance of the miner on the cover should make all of us think. That miner represents all suffering Americans who have been exploited by the wealthy and powerful of our country...
...energy for a strong America is built into the very fiber of that miner and other hard-working men like him. Let's stop exploiting our real wealth before it is too late...
...watched my grandfather live a life struggling for each breath he took because of black-lung disease. I remember him covered with the black coal dust of the mines. How many coal users think of the miner as they load their furnaces with this precious fuel? I am with the miners...
Warmer weather and increased production from non-U.M.W. mines had undercut the strike's effectiveness. Moreover, the financial burden of the walkout was finally grinding down the stubborn miners and their families. "I'm hurtin'," confessed Miner Johnny Elkins, 25, of Hernshaw, W. Va., who voted against the last contract offer. To make ends meet, he had been cutting and selling firewood for $35 a truckload. "Now spring's coming," said Elkins, "and people ain't needing firewood." So he traded in his chain saw for a secondhand trail bike and voted...