Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industrial Cleveland, where more than 42,000 men & women were out at the steel, auto and electric plants, the most talked-of strike involved 200 A.F. of L. pressmen on the city's three newspapers, shut down since Jan. 5. Leaders of the other strikes were glad: they were sure the papers would be blasting them...
TIME'S Cleveland correspondent wrote: "Picketing is de luxe. No walking. Pickets sit in open-front tarpaulin huts, with heat provided by salamanders. Men play cards, gossip, drink coffee. At night some hold potato and wiener roasts. Women pickets gossip and giggle...
Guest Conductor George Szell (pronounced Sell) had really sold himself. When he led the Cleveland Orchestra in December the house was jammed, the audience thundered applause, and the Cleveland critics raved. Last week Cleveland signed Conductor Szell to a three-year contract-on his own terms. His salary: more than $30,000 a year, the largest ever paid to a Cleveland conductor...
...Buffalo, where he now lives. His house was on the edge of Salem, and the edge of the woods. When he was eight, Burchfield knew how to tell trees apart, and how to people their shadows with figures he had read about in fairy tales. Four years at the Cleveland School of Art and a job with an automobile-parts company were not enough to change him. His first important paintings in 1917 were fantasies based on childhood impressions of nature...
...decision the court flatly rejected the recommendation of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. The department had argued that sale to the roads would set up a new monopoly, strongly recommended selling to a group made up of Alleghany Corp.'s Robert Young, Allan Kirby, and Cleveland's Otis & Co. This group had promised to spend $500,000,000 to spruce up the service. And Bob Young had talked of coast-to-coast service, with no changes at Chicago...