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 Amazing Pipeline Stories
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A121
Author - Dermot Cole
Dimensions (Inches) 5.5 x 8.5
Paperback
224 pages
Published 1997
Price $15.98  


Table of Contents
FOREWORD
  What Happens When It Goes Boom
INTRODUCTION
  The Thin Silver Line

Section I

  The Work Force
    Hurry Up and Wait
    Of Unions and Reunions
    The Big Man in the Floppy Hat
    Trucking on the Kamikaze Trail
    Women at Work
    The Welders from Tulsa

Section II

  Skinny City
    The Camps and the Pump Stations
    An Eight-Hundred-Mile Neighborhood
    Henry Kissinger's Dream
    Camp Rules
    All You Can Eat
    The Naked Truth
    New Beginnings in the Pipeline Parish
    Tune In Next Time
    Letters Home
    Farthest North Gator
    A Piece of the Pipeline
    Patriotic Pipeliners
    Muleskinner on the Haul Road

Section III

  Sudden and Unexpected Wealth
    Sudden and Unexpected Wealth

Section IV

  Power and Vice
     Looking for Live Ones
    The North Star Terminals Murders
    Theft and Waste

Section V

  Growing Pains
    An Occupied City
    In the Path of the Pipe
    Squeezing In
    Road Warrior
    From Second Avenue to Two Street
    That Shade of Yellow
    The Busy Sound of Success
    Plain Greed

Section VI

  The Aftermath
    Bigger and Busier
  Almanac
    By the Numbers
    Pipeline Cracks
    Pipeline Timeline
  Sources
  Index
  About the Author