Word: newark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first five, according to number of customers served: Consolidated Edison Co., New York; Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco; Public Service Electric & Gas Co., Newark; Commonwealth Edison Co., Chicago; Southern California Edison Co., Los Angeles...
...House subcommittee okayed an Air Force program to spend $389 million on 20 big forging and extrusion presses. * Henry J. Kaiser, who has been plugging for the presses for 2½ years, got a contract to build a $17 million plant at Newark, Ohio to house two of them-a 25,000-tonner and a 35,000-tonner to be built by E. W. Bliss at a total cost of $14 million. Only two weeks ago, Alcoa got a letter of intent to operate a 35,000-tonner and a 50,000-tonner to be built by United Engineering & Foundry...
...third time in 2½ months that a plane had plummeted on Elizabeth, and the Port of New York Authority, fearing riots, shut the $52 million Newark airport up tight within three hours...
Elizabeth civic leaders demanded that the airport be closed permanently. Real-estate values in the city dropped. Newark flights were switched to the other New York fields last week, increasing traffic pressure at La Guardia to a point where planes were landing and taking off every two minutes and similarly heightening activity at Idlewild. This moved nearby residents of Jackson Heights and Jamaica to a wave of protest that almost matched Elizabeth's. The subject became conversational topic A in a dozen other cities throughout the nation...
...whitecollar" strike in U.S. labor history. The strikers, whose work included selling and collecting premiums on industrial policies (i.e., insurance paid for in small weekly or monthly installments), complained of overwork and underpay. During the strike, they threw as many as 1,000 pickets around the company's Newark (N.J.) headquarters...