Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Union of Operating Engineers stood outside the giant Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP). When it got really cold, the engineers and operators huddled in one of their co-worker's cars with the heat going full blast. But when they were needed--to picket the entrance where the pipe fitters went in or to convince the Teamsters not to deliver oil to the plant--they forgot about the cold. The workers stood their ground until the police told them to "move or get arrested" or they grew hoarse from yelling about a University which had "said one thing...
ALASKA's not just a pipe-welder's dream. Writers, too, have trekked North, seeking new horizons and best-selling gold in an unexplored territory. Those who care to learn what life in Alaska is really like will have to end their leather-upholstered musings about the wilds with Joe McGinnis' Going to Extremes...
...whether you believe the U.S. Census Bureau) a "steel town," like scores of small towns in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania--the industrial heartland. The ships come in from the lake to dock, but most travellers drive straight through, headed for Cleveland or Toledo and maybe Detroit. The biggest steel pipe plant in the country--"U.S. Steel. The Real Threat is From Foreign Steel" say the signs at the Grove St. entrance--dominates the southern half of town, stretching across the shores of Lake Erie in a spot close to where an old man invented the steam shovel...
...plant has been down more than half the year--one week on, one week off--and the prefab corrugated steel low-rise that houses Local 425 of the United Auto Workers has been more crowded than usual. At the steel plant, they've been a little luckier; pipe orders have come in from Youngstown, Ohio, and Indiana. But the half of the mill where 2000 people, sons of the Puerto Ricans they trucked in to keep the plant running during World War II, make steel bars hasn't been running much at all. Nearly one of six employable people...
...House they call him "Butt-fucker" because he does all the dirty work. He's the guy they turn to when a hot water pipe bursts in the gameroom at 2 a.m. or when the Toast-R-Oven short-circuits the entire first floor. When they had a Hawaiian party and didn't know what to do with all the sand, he figured out a way to truck it down the block to a tiny tributary of the Charles. To this day, Butt-fucker's Beach lies invitingly under the overpass, at the intersection of Beacon Street and Charles Gate...