Word: pa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JAMES E. JONES Lincoln University, Pa...
Blough, 48, was born in Riverside, Pa., went to Susquehanna University and Yale Law School. He left private law practice in Manhattan in 1939 to serve as a counsel for Big Steel during a Government investigation. As secretary of U.S. Steel's operating subsidiary, he learned production; as Fairless' alter ego on many trips to Washington, he helped shape policy. This week Vice Chairman Blough was helping Lawyer John W. Davis plead Big Steel's case in the Supreme Court against presidential seizure...
...increase this trickle, Senator Edward Martin (R-Pa.) proposed to introduce to congress in the next few days a bill increasing the maximum tax-reduction to 25 percent. It will be attached as a rider to a current bill in the House permitting the Red Cross to give free benefit performances...
...rising costs. Bethlehem's net after taxes, the first reported by a big steel producer, was $18.9 million in 1951's first quarter, v. $39.4 million in 1951's last. Refrigerator sales were so soggy that General Electric laid off 2,500 workers at its Erie, Pa. plant and planned to cut production 50%. There were other layoffs, and for the second time since World War II's end, industrial employment failed to show its usual spring rise...
Just about the only thing missing from this marshmallow melange of Technicolor, tunes, slapstick and sentiment is Clifton Webb, the original Pa Gilbreth, who passed on in Cheaper by the Dozen. In Belles, Webb is seen only in a brief flashback from the earlier film. Unfortunately, he and his acid personality could not be around for the rest of the movie to help counteract the saccharin goings...