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By J. McConahy

This e-book chronicles Mr. McConahy's own reports operating at American Cyanmid's "powder mill" in Edinburgh, PA, in the course of the overdue Nineteen Sixties. a huge explosion on the mill in 1964 finally resulted in the remaining of the plant, the lack of good-paying exertions jobs in an economically depressed rural quarter, and the passing of a lifestyle that revered and relied upon relations ties and friendship loyalties.

This isn't lots a narrative approximately one man's thoughts, because it is a narrative of fellowship and survival in a really explosive operating surroundings. Mr. McConahy honors all those that lived via these transitional occasions together with his own recollections and unique photos and documents.

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