Amazing Pipeline Stories by Dermot Cole

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Amazing Pipeline Stories by Dermot Cole

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Amazing Pipeline Stories by Dermot Cole

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.

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SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780945397465
ISBN 10 0945397461
Title Amazing Pipeline Stories
Author Dermot Cole
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)
Year published 1997-05-01
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.