Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counsel. He drove his Cadillac over to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. (acquiring a ticket for speeding on the way) to attend negotiations with the northern, and western coal operators. John Lewis had no quarrel with them over the miners' welfare-fund payments; they had paid theirs faithfully, even sending along $3,000,000 last week despite the strike...
That did not faze old John in the slightest. He had not even bothered to talk with the southern operators, some of whom had precipitated the walkout (say the miners) by withholding payments to the welfare fund. He still refused to discuss his new contract demands with the northern operators. (Best guess: a boost in the present royalty for the fund to 30? a ton, reduction of the present eight-hour day to seven with no loss...
Countywide projects costing millions were already started: a new airport, new buildings, new highways, new bridges, new dams along the tributaries of the Allegheny and the Monongahela Rivers. R. K. Mellon himself had helped start them. Even facing the possibility of a paralyzing steel strike last week, Pittsburgh was a city of new hope. Pittsburgh was being rebuilt, restored, rejuvenated...
Smoke from its stacks and its chimney pots, ash from its blast furnaces hung over its head in a never-dissipated cloud. Smoke curled even from the gashes in its hillsides, where fire burned internally along the coal seams...
...Mellons fought the battle from their bank. The Mellons were never engineers, chemists, inventors, or even builders. They were moneymen. They manipulated the wealth required for the projection of other men's ambitions and dreams. They bought up real estate, financed railroads. They underwrote the development of the miraculous new light and silvery aluminum. With nephew William Larimer, son of Thomas' second son James, Andy and "R.B." financed the gigantic Spindletop gusher in Texas...