Word: plan
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...wondering "when the phone will ring to say they've found him." Worried that their husbands' bodies had been incinerated in the intense fires of the explosions, and discouraged by Consolidation Coal Co.'s reports that recovery could stretch over years, they agreed to a plan that would seal off from commercial production the portion of the mine containing the most inaccessible bodies. That area would become a cemetery, and a monument to the miners would be erected on the surface...
...plan was originated by The Rev Everett Briggs of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Monongah. "They've been living under a pall of death," The Rev. Briggs said. "There was this fantasy that widows couldn't remarry because their husbands weren't buried. They couldn't reorganize their lives...
...proposal was submitted to Consolidation's officers and quickly approved, with a $10,000 payment going to each of the families. Under the plan, Consolidation could resume commercial operation of the still accessible portion of the mine. An agreement, contingent upon approval of United Mine Workers, the U.S. Bureau of Mines and the West Virginia Department of Mines, was drawn up and signed by 70 widows...
...easy decision: "Tears rolled down my cheeks all the time I was signing the agreement," Mrs. Juanita Mayle said. "It was like putting a price tag on our husbands' bodies." Mrs. Barbara Toler, 25, like the other young widows, has had difficulty planning for the future: "I go with a very fine man-he's a miner-and we do plan to be married. But until this is settled, I don't feel I'm free." Mrs. Toler signed the agreement after "the company told us it would take three to five years to get them...
Several Alternatives. Paraphrasing Churchill, House Majority Leader Carl Albert admits that the seniority system may be "the worst possible system-except for all the alternatives." Albert notwithstanding, several alternatives have been proposed by angry congressional juniors. One plan would give a party caucus the authority to choose a chairman (or for the minority party, the ranking member) from that party's three most senior members on a committee. Even such a limited change might have dramatic impact. Thus Stuart Symington, a Viet Nam dove, could be chosen to replace the hawkish John Stennis as chairman of the Senate Armed...