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...archetype of the fading dog-eat-dog capitalist. Tall and slim (5 ft. 11 in., 175 Ibs.) with frosty blue eyes and arctic white hair, he dresses like Daddy Warbucks (blue suits, grey Homburg) and resides in manorial splendor on huge farms (champion Shorthorn beef cattle) in Ohio and Nova Scotia. His personal wealth is estimated at something like $100 million, and his hard-knuckled grip on U.S. industry extends over a $2 billion empire of iron and steel, railroads, shipping, coal and paint. Cy Eaton picked up his empire by lone-wolf feats of financial derring-do that have...
...last Thursday 174 men hung their brass identity disks in the lamphouse of Cumberland No. 2 colliery and went below the quiet, tree-shaded streets of Springhill, Nova Scotia (pop. 7,000) into the deepest mine in North America. Before the shift ended, more than half were trapped underground in Canada's worst mine disaster in 44 years. At week's end twelve men were known dead, another 81 missing and presumed dead...
What trapped the men was a "bump," a hazard peculiar to Nova Scotia soft coal mines, in which excavated seams compress with near-explosive force, sending up clouds of gas. Coming at 8:05 p.m., the rumbling shock tumbled dishes all over town. At the colliery, the miners' wives looked at the tagboard and waited. Only a few sobbed. Within an hour volunteer rescuers arrived, each toting 45 Ibs. of special oxygen equipment, and started down the 13,800-ft. shaft. Eighty-one survivors were brought up, their faces blank with shock. But the faces of the others were...
There was another way of looking at the mess of bodies, tears and coal dust up in Springhill, Nova Scotia last week. The casket trade in the Maritime Provinces, which are economically depressed, rose sharply. The coffee-donut market was brisk as newspapermen arrived from the city. (There are no saloons in Nova Scotia.) The telephone company worked overtime to string up extra lines so the press could transmit its wirephoto of Canada living in the early 19th century. That picture was about the only good thing that ever came out of Springhill...
...Thank you for your tribute to Robert Service [Sept. 22]. An old "ex-Yukon" patient in a Nova Scotia hospital once told me he had lived in a tent next to Bob Service...