Word: lipsett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their 15 years as junkmen in New York, brothers Morris and Julius Lipsett had handled such big jobs as scrapping Manhattan's Second Avenue El, the old approaches to the Brooklyn Bridge, and the liner Normandie (TIME, Oct. 14, 1946). So they expected no trouble when they bought the decommissioned battleship New Mexico for $381,000 (original cost in 1917: $17,348,200). But last week as the New Mex, shorn of her power plant and with holes bored in her big guns, was towed from Boston toward Newark, trouble hit her like a spread of torpedoes amidships...
...Lipsett brothers had a deal with the Navy to moor the New Mex at its Newark dock while they cut her up. But as the battleship approached, the city of Newark declared a blockade...
...Lipsett, Inc. arranged for nine other tugs and a Coast Guard cutter for the trip to the graveyard, Newark, spurred by all the publicity it was getting, appealed to retired Admiral Halsey, a New Jersey native, for advice. "Bull" Halsey, a carrier man, who did not have much use for battleships anyhow, replied: "I don't known a damn thing about patrolling channels." The London News Chronicle joined the fun. It cabled to find out if a revolution was impending. Replied Newark: "Let there be no dancing in the streets of London. This is no civil...
...September, the Manhattan demolition firm of Lipsett, Inc. sent Big Jim to Pittsburgh to help clear away the wreckage of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway's old Wabash Station, which had been swept by an $8,000,000 fire in 1946. With his 40-ton crane and his wrecking ball, Big Jim was the delight of Pittsburgh's sidewalk superintendents. Every day, hundreds of people gathered to watch him work. The Pittsburgh Press ran a Sunday feature story about Big Jim. The story said that he was "the best free show in town...
That was too much for Pittsburgh Local No. 905 of the A.F.L.'s Union of Operating Engineers. Last week it peremptorily ordered Lipsett, Inc. to take Big Jim, a good union man himself, off the job and replace him with a Pittsburgh craneman. Cried Local President P. Wharton: "He had too much publicity. The [newspaper] story focused attention on him and the fact that he was from New York. It also called him an expert. We've got 2,010 members in our union, and they're all experts. We just had to show him he wasn...