Lambert Paul F., Franks Kenny A. Voices from the Oil Fields 9780806164809

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Автор: Lambert Paul F., Franks Kenny A.
Название: Voices from the Oil Fields
ISBN: 9780806164809
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История Америк

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

Технологии использования ископаемого топлива

ISBN-10: 0806164808
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 276
Вес: 0.41 кг.
Дата издания: 20.02.2020
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 41 black & white illustrations
Размер: 22.91 x 15.19 x 1.57 cm
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: During the oil-boom days of the early twentieth century, a few lucky or shrewd individuals made millions of dollars virtually overnight. It is a familiar theme in the romantic mythology that sprang up about the era. But the people who produced those millions are the real story, told in these word-for-word recollections of early-day workers in the oil patch. In vivid, often poignant detail these men and women recall the grueling toil, primitive living and working conditions, and ever-present danger in a time when life was cheap and oil was gold. In the late 1930s employees of the Federal Writers Project, a branch of the New Deal Workers Progress Administration, recorded the voices of these pioneers as they offered their memories, sometimes wryly humorous and sometimes bitter, of the turmoil that was the daily lot of the oilfielders. We meet colorful, tough-talking Manila Kate, who took over her husbands drilling outfit after he died in an explosion. A welder vividly recalls the death of his closest pal, a skilled hand who loved to take chances. In an oil-field shantytown the support of good-hearted neighbors assuages the pain of a bereaved and impoverished family. A shooter recalls the deadly danger of the soup wagon the buckboard that delivered the nitroglycerin to the well - or blew up on the way. While many of the individuals witnessed bizarre accidents that became almost routine in the early oil fields, their personal stories also show how uncertain job security and wages could be, even before the Depression, when dry holes and plummeting oil prices left thousands of workers broke and homeless. Many of the interviewers provide valuable technical details about early oilfield operations. Yet it is the stories of the people, the workers themselves, that endure. The early oil industry was built upon their toil, their pain, and their courage, all of which are evident in every word recorded here.
Дополнительное описание: History of the Americas

Voices from the Oil Fields, Lambert Paul F., Franks Kenny A.