Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Splintery Stairs. SoHo's smaller lofts (2,100 to 2,500 sq. ft.) are just right for artists doing large-scale works in new industrial materials. And the continuing presence of workmen and small manufacturers encourages a rewarding combination of art and industry. Says Jewelry Maker Gale Picard: "The machinist across the street comes over to give us advice. The neighborhood carpenters and mechanics are all very helpful in working out artistic problems...
...University of Denver, National Guardsmen moved onto the campus while workmen demolished a shantytown built by anti-war protestors...
...West Virginia law wasn't ideal. It did, for the first time, make black lung compensable, but it left administration in the hands of a state Workmen's Compensation Board so hopelessly bureaucratic and inadequate that it has two completely separate medical boards, no central medical administrative facility, no clinical staff and no research program. The bill could have been much better-but to improve it takes massive effort in a state dominated by giant coal and chemical companies allied with "medieval-minded, industry-oriented state senators and their medical counterparts." as Black Lung Association president Charles Brooks puts...
...reports vary because until very recently the states Weren't taking the trouble to compensate men for black lung. Until 1969 only three states recognized the disease in their Workmen's Compensation statutes, and only one state. Pennsylvania, was actually systematic about diagnosing black lung and compensating for it. Pennsylvania reports that about 1100 miners are dying of the disease every year. That's one state. There are 23,000 working miners in Pennsylvania: nearly twice that many in West Virginia, which is the nation's leading coal-mining state and which, until 1969, operated under Workmen's Compensation laws...
...between 2,400 lbs. and 4,000 lbs. each and 80 unwieldy wooden beams of the type that carried traffic on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue during recent subway construction. To make room, the Whitney cleared away all the partitions in its 108-ft.-long third-floor gallery. As workmen moved in with gantries, forklifts and hydraulic jacks to help Morris do his thing, the museum took on the look of a midtown Manhattan construction site...