Miners Face Hidden Dangers and Hard Realities
In a Kentucky narrative on coal mining, Clyde Testerman recalls dangerous work, frequent near misses, and the rise of black lung disease after years underground. The piece notes a fatal 88-miner nonunion explosion near Wooten, and Testerman’s life altered by reduced breathing capacity and heart strain from coal dust.
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Kentucky
Williamson
W. Va
Mlney
Clyde Testerman
Tye
Testerman
Island Creek Coal Company
No. 25
Delliarton
Wooten
Festerman
Daniel Boone
Nortonville
Kyve
U N Prepares for Red Chinese Entry at Turtle Bay
Secretary General U Thant said the U.N. is making room for Communist China in New York. He cited two main prep areas: finances with China’s likely refusal to pay assessments and staff quotas to admit Chinese personnel, noting the current debt near $50 million and a Chinese assistant secretary general, Victor Chi Tsai Hoo, aging toward retirement.
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Louis Halasz
United Nations
N.Y
Peking
Turtle Bay
U Thant
U.N
New York
Victor Chi- Tsai Hoo
St. Petersburg
University of Paris
League of Nations
Paris confectioner Appert wins prize for preserved foods
Nicolas Appert, a Paris confectioner, devised a method to preserve foods in 1809 by sealing them in glass bottles and boiling. His innovation earned a government prize of 12,000 francs.
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Paris
Nicolas Appert
Italians Wage War With The Tax Collector
In Rome a broad tax resistance grows as professionals such as doctors lawyers architects and engineers refuse full tax disclosure. The government labels them top evaders while luminaries like Sophia Loren claim Swiss residency to dodge Rome taxes. Rome cites low declared incomes among 150000 professionals.
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Rome
Sophia Loren
Carlo Ponti
Switzerland
Thraxman
Luigi Preti
Italy
Preti
United
States
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