Word: kaufmann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longest and costliest postwar strikes was coming to an end last week. In Pittsburgh 760 delivery-truck drivers and helpers belonging to Dave Beck's A.F.L. Teamsters agreed to end their walkout against five of the city's biggest department stores (Kaufmann's, Home's, Frank & Seder's, Gimbels, Rosenbaum's) after 52 weeks of picketing and violence. Under the terms of a three-year contract, the stores agreed to an overall 8½? wage boost (to $2.21 an hour for drivers, $1.94 for helpers) plus some fringe benefits. In return the Teamsters gave...
...Teamsters in the picket lines had done well at the department stores involved-Kaufmann's, Home's, Gimbels, Frank & Seder's and Rosenbaum's. Their pay, $2.122 an hour, was at or near the Teamsters' national top, and they enjoyed two featherbedding privileges unmatched in. the U.S. The stores were not permitted to make parcel-post deliveries, but were required to put a union driver and helper on every delivery truck, regardless of the size of the load...
Nelson W. Aldrich, Philip C. Berolzheimer, Edward L. Burlingame, Geoffrey T. Chalmers, Richard P. Chapman, Jr., Robert Dubinsky, Eric Franck, Grey Hodnett, Henry C. Holmes, Alfred M. Hoyt (Capt.), David C. Jordan, Frederick W. Kaufmann, Archibald I. Leyashmeyer, George W. McGarrity, Thomas B. Molholm, Grayson M. P. Murphy, III, Francis L. S. Newell, Stephen Parker, James K. Polese, Clifford A. Rand, Jr., Stephen P. Reibel, Michael S. Robertson, Erik J. Stapper, Ingvars J. Vitands, Harry J. Wexler, John M. P. Donovan...
...apartment layouts, two-room kitchenettes to four rooms. The first day, the store took deposits on 65 apartments priced from $13,000 to $32,350, and by week's end it had sold 250 out of the 299 in the proposed building. Said Gimbels' boss Arthur Kaufmann: "One of the most amazing responses . . . in the history of merchandising...
About the same time, Composer Harris, the festival's executive director, touched Pittsburgh's modern Medici (the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Howard Heinz Endowment, Edgar J. Kaufmann Charitable Trust) for most of the estimated $50,000 cost, got a 62-man international jury to select the world's most important composers...