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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1978 Dec 3 DOC NMA132 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Kansas City Star - Workers Paid Deadly Price for Industrial Progress - Part 2 of 3 (' C? 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