Word: allentown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...came to depend too much on Pa. She asked him, for instance, to settle a strike of 210 workers making mosquito netting at Arcadia Knitting Mills, Inc. in Allentown, Pa. She dumped cases into the Board's lap at the rate of almost one a day, not counting Sundays and holidays. The Board did what it could, working night & day, sitting for twelve to 18 hours at a stretch. Of 34 cases certified, it ended 28, sent one back to Ma Perkins as out of its jurisdiction...
Regional planning for Protestant churches got its first big boost last week. The starting point: two able reports on population shifts and religious needs around Philadelphia, made at Allentown, Pa. to the annual Methodist Conference for the Philadelphia area. Impressed, the delegates from the conference's 322 churches and missions voted a ten-year, $250,000 program by way of starter...
...employes of Trojan Powder Co., in the rolling country northwest of Allentown, Pa., had just settled down to their hazardous day's work one morning last week. They were making sensitive detonators for blasting, TNT for the Navy, smokeless powder for the Army. It was around 8:30 when they heard it, a sound anyone could recognize, the dull boom like the slamming of an underground door. Sixty miles to the east, at Woodbridge, N. J., the dust and debris settled over what had been the plant of United Railway Signal Corp., over a horrible group of ragged bundles...
...hour later, with an eye-searing flash, the detonator house of the Allentown plant blew up. showered splintered wood on the bodies of three workmen...