Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constantly open during the strike, the trouble started in December when 300 striking miners showed up and asked Mineowner Ed Crooks to stop operations. Instead, he spent $6,000 on guns and ammunition to arm his 24 workers and hired half a dozen guards to keep watch. On the wall in the trailer that serves as the mine's office and command post, he kept four black AR-15 semiautomatic rifles. Don Powers, superintendent at Crooks' mine, calmly patted his own .357 Magnum revolver and asserted his view: "They got the right to strike if they want...
...attacked in January, and twelve $50,000 coal trucks were destroyed. State police arrested 194 men, mostly miners from Indiana's U.M.W. District 11. Last week any visitor was met by at least three AR-15-armed guards. In his office, which still has holes in the wall from the ax attack of the U.M.W. toughs, B&M Owner Paul Teegarden kept a 9-mm Smith & Wesson automatic pistol on his desk and a 12-gauge shotgun on the wall. Said Teegarden, who lived in his office from the beginning of the strike: "If they come again they...
Evidently, the Wall Street Journal still has a steady following: the perennial favorite, Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," held on to the number-one position by a wide margin...
...been the case for the last three weeks, Harvard will have its back against the wall, as the icemen attempt 1) to avoid a losing season for the first time since the 1966-67 campaign, and first under Coach Billy Cleary and 2) to win a game without the services of the talented Hughes Brothers and winger Murray Dea, all of whom were suspended for the final game following the donnybrook with...
...mean H.R. "Bob" Nazi crew-cut Medusa-eyed s.o.b. Berlin Wall Lord High Executioner Haldeman...