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The Buffalo Creek disaster : how the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won / Gerald M. Stern.
LIBRA KF228.P75 S7 1977
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stern, Gerald M., 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prince, Dennis.
- Pittston Company.
- Floods--West Virginia--Buffalo Creek (Logan County).
- Floods.
- West Virginia--Buffalo Creek (Logan County).
- Local Subjects:
- Prince, Dennis.
- Pittston Company.
- Physical Description:
- x, 307 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1977.
- Summary:
- "A must book for those interested in the continuing American battle between the corporations and the individual citizen".--Congressional Affairs Press.
- Contents:
- PART ONE: The call for help
- An act of God
- When in doubt, do the right thing
- Mountain Mama
- Take care of my baby
- They wasn't for sale
- Flagrant disregard
- Mere puff and blow
- Oyez, oyez, oyez
- PART TWO: A more definite statement
- Pittston loses bid for secrecy
- Some lawyer stories
- What do you mean, dam
- It was a natural occurrence
- Nowhere else to put it
- What about existing dams?
- Psychic impairment
- Danger note
- Enough
- PART THREE: Ambulance chasing
- The statute of limitations
- A written settlement proposal
- Flood at lick fork
- The potential for similar disasters
- Catch-22
- A settlement meeting
- Absent plaintiffs
- Unavailable witnesses
- The glaring deductible
- The dam was all right
- Strategy.
- Notes:
- Reprint of the ed. published by Random House, New York.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Stern, Gerald M., 1937- Buffalo Creek disaster.
- ISBN:
- 0394723430
- 9780394723433
- OCLC:
- 2614318
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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