Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Edmond is common to most fields. For lack of storage tanks, pipelines and nearby markets, operators have always "vented," i.e., burned off in flares or simply released, great quantities of natural gas. Aside from the loss in fuel, this practice has caused an even more important drop in underground gas pressure, by which much oil is brought to the surface. In West Edmond alone, venting last year reached an estimated volume of 250,000,000 cubic feet...
...know is this - and I'm hoping TIME can supply the rest: in the middle of the last century there lived in Maryland a Negro woman, a slave, who felt so strongly on the subject of human bondage that she started an "underground" movement of slaves across the border into free Pennsylvania . . . and later to Canada. ... As her fame grew, Northern Abolitionists supplied her with funds and advice. She became, in time, the most famous Negro woman in U.S. history. . . . Her name was Harriet Tubman...
...good record of safety. State mine inspectors had checked and okayed it on May 29. The night of July 23, the large, 37-year-old mine had as usual been rock-dusted to localize possible gas explosions. But the next afternoon, while a full shift of 264 miners worked underground, a crushing blast shook one of No. 8's 500-ft.-deep galleries. Near the source of the explosion, 27 miners died, five were injured. The cause: "Ignition of methane...
...interrupting a vacation to visit the scene, reported that all state mine-safety laws had been complied with. John L. Lewis, interrupting a visit to his mother in Springfield, Ill., was greeted at Old Ben's tipple by his younger brother, 54-year-old, publicity-shy Howard Lewis.* Underground superintendent for No. 8, Howard had luckily not been below when the blast occurred...
...zone, a young man who made a name as a writer under Naziism works in a rock quarry and wonders how he can ever bring up three growing boys. In the British zone, a Ruhr miner washes his coal-streaked body in the daylight after eight hours' work underground, then sets out for the countryside to trade some clothes for bread. In the French zone a winegrower watches police break into his garage. They haul out ten cases of wine which he had set aside to sell to an American for cigarets...