Amazing Pipeline Stories: How Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Transformed Life in America's Last Frontier Tapa blanda - 1997
de Dermot Cole
Descripción de contraportada
America needed the oil. In the aftermath of the Arab oil embargo of 1973-74, during which Americans waited hours in line to buy rationed gasoline, the world's largest construction companies rushed north to build the 900-mile, $8 billion Trans-Alaska Pipeline. National security was at stake.
Many of the 70,000 men and women who worked on the pipeline saw it as a way to find a new life, or to escape an old one. The three-year boom was unlike any other, surpassing even the Gold Rush for social and economic upheaval that touched nearly every Alaskan in some way.
With an avalance of oil money came trouble -- drugs, prostitution, gambling, divorce, extortion, and violent crime. The cost of living soared. The real-estate and rental market went wild as tens of thousands came seeking fat pipeline paychecks for "seven 12s" - working seven days a week, twelve hours a day.
Thirty-five years later, award-winning journalist Dermot Cole of the "Fairbanks Daily News-Miner," recalls the best of the pipeline stories with humor, authenticity, and drama.
Detalles
- Título Amazing Pipeline Stories: How Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Transformed Life in America's Last Frontier
- Autor Dermot Cole
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición 3rd Printing
- Páginas 224
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Epicenter Press (WA), Fairbanks, AK
- Fecha de publicación 1997-05-01
- ISBN 9780945397465 / 0945397461
- Peso 0.69 libras (0.31 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.51 x 5.51 x 0.59 pulgadas (21.62 x 14.00 x 1.50 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Geographic Orientation: Alaska
- Library of Congress subjects Alaska - Social life and customs, Construction workers - Alaska - Social life
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 97060785
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.8
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