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  Amazing Alaskan Pipeline Stories by Dermot Cole Oil Industry
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Make/Author/Artist: Dermot Cole
Edition/ Material: 1997
Details: Soft Cover

Quantity in Stock:1

Product Code: AMZPIP

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After an oil embargo in the 1970s, the world's largest construction companies rushed north to build the 800 mile, $8 billion Trans-Alaska Pipeline. National security was at stake.

The 70,000 men and women who built the pipeline saw it as a chance to find a new life, or to escape an old one. The three year boom was like none ever seen in Alaska, surpassing even the Gold Rush for social and economic upheaval.

With an avalanche of money came trouble - drugs, prostitution, gambling, divorce. Phones did not work. Long lines were found everywhere. 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, 12 hours a day.

Nearly a quarter century later, Fairbanks journalist Dermot Cole recalls the best of the pipeline stories with humor, authenticity and drama. Illustrated with photos.

CONDITION: Soft Cover, USED with light to moderate overall wear,  224 pages, 1997

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