Word: stepney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Virginia hollow of Gary, the silence hangs like a thick fog. "Used to be early in the morning, I would be real busy, men stopping in to get their lunch," said Constance Stepney, a cashier at the Bantam combination grocery store and gas station. "Now it's a real ghost town. You don't see no trains. You don't see the men coming in and going to work 'cause nobody's working...
...year ago, Constance Stepney's husband Roosevelt, 47, was making $85 a day as a dumper at one of U.S. Steel Corp.'s five local coal mines, confidently dubbed "the billion-dollar mine." But then U.S. Steel closed all the mines down. Now Roosevelt hangs around the house doing odd jobs and collects $188 a week in unemployment compensation to add to his wife's $112 weekly paycheck from her cashier's job. With a 13-year-old son, they are barely scraping along, fearful that the unemployment benefits may soon be exhausted. But Mrs. Stepney...