Word: houston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After reporting for work as usual one day last week, employees of Houston's Crown Central Petroleum Corp. refinery settled down to hours of writing and rewriting lists of "grievances" against the company. It was a new sit-down technique. Explained cocky Arthur Hajecate, secretary-treasurer of the Houston local of the C.I.O.'s Oil Workers International Union: there is a loophole in the Taft-Hartley Act which permits employees to compose their gripes on company time...
Could Be. In Houston, police issued a traffic ticket to 23-year-old Farmer Ought To Be Minifee, later made out another for his brother, Must Be Minifee...
...PETER EMIG Houston, Texas...
...acres he tenant-farms, while he kept in touch with the nearby cotton gin, checking on his rivals. When Acosta had enough, he rushed the cotton into town to be ginned, piled the 512-lb. bale aboard a pick-up truck and raced 350 miles to the Houston Cotton Exchange in 6½ hours. For bringing in the first bale of the season, Joe got $1,325 in prize money, and another $1,203, a record, when his bale was auctioned off at the exchange...
Last week, at a time when U.S. retailers were feeling a sag in sales (average: 4%), Penney's was still booming. In the first five months this year, its sales of $305 million were 5% higher than in 1948. Penney's was completing three new stores (in Houston, Sault Sainte Marie, Mich, and Midvale, Utah), expanding its store in Albuquerque, opening another one in Oklahoma City. Next January it will also open a big new store in Springfield, Mass., its 1,608th outlet...