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...March 1902, a young Lehigh graduate was working in London as sales engineer for the Buffalo Forge Co. His name: Tom Mercer Girdler. His paycheck: $12.50 a week. One day, from Pittsburgh's Oliver Iron & Steel Co., came the offer of another job with a salary of $1,000 a year. Homesick Tom Girdler snapped it up, caught the next ship back to the U.S. "That," he confesses in his just-published autobiography (Boot Straps, written in collaboration with Boyden Sparkes; Scribner; $3), "is how I happened to get into the steel business...
...year ago Buffalo could have matched its manpower troubles with any city's. It had an overall labor shortage, which was worsened by widespread labor pirating, sucking workers from the heavy work and low pay of the steel mills, shipyards, etc., into the pleasanter surroundings and high wages of the aircraft plants. As a result, war production in Buffalo's heavy industries was hamstrung, while overstaffed aircraft plants frequently marked time for lack of parts from understaffed subcontractors. To ease the crisis, Buffalo fumbled with numerous catch-as-catch-can makeshifts. Example: to induce more women to take...
Peter F. Kranz '45, of the NROTC at Kirkland House and Buffalo, New York, will replace as president of Phillips Brooks House, John W. Ellison '44, who is graduating in October. Kent C. Fry '45, of Lowell House and New York City, will take over the vice-presidency...
When the crack New York-Buffalo Lackawanna Limited cracked up one night a fortnight ago in upper New York State, available reporters were as scarce as hen's teeth. How the United Press got the story of the wreck, in which 28 died in live steam, made a yarn for pressroom spinning. Seldom had improvised telephone coverage, which newspapers and news associations constantly use, turned out so successfully...
...other funeral homes, the Wayland Hospital and Wayland's Masonic Temple (where some injured were being treated), he got more names. Survivors gave him their versions of the accident. Then, when A. H. McLaughlin, the railroad's chief dispatcher, arrived from Buffalo, Hudson was an unnoticed bystander while the preliminary investigation of the wreck's cause got underway...