Word: pithead
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...life's philosophy: "It's not what tha wants, lad, it's what tha's got to do." At 14 he wants to earn some money for his family, but he has got to become a coal miner to do that. Down into the pithead goes Danny among the sooty veterans who, when they stop to think, curse the darkness into which they have been born. There is a certain amount of camaraderie below the ground, but these undergroundhogs are mostly swine above...
...Stanley Baldwin were speeding to Cwm by motor. If the State could further the entrapped miners' rescue in any way, the presence of Premier Baldwin guaranteed every effort. As the Premier's limousine entered Cwm, a score of Salvation Army workers were grouped about the fatal pithead singing, "O God, Our Help In Ages Past...
Thus, while in the U. S. anxious men and women kept a nerve-straining vigil at Sand Cave where Floyd Collins was buried alive, and a horrified nation clung bravely to hope, crowds of weeping German women and children surrounded the Stein pithead, breaking police cordons in their desperate grief, while a whole nation poured out its sympathy...
...reparations. Reparations in kind would be obtained by means of orders in Germany, conducted in the usual commercial manner through the gold issue bank from the funds made available to che individual nations from the income from these sources. Should France want coal from the Ruhr, she could pay pithead prices to the owners of the Ruhr mines by drafts on her credits deposited in the gold issue bank. Thus military occupation and accusations of bad faith would be obviated...