Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carey nevertheless thought he had done well for them: Philco had threatened to move out of Philadelphia, had already sublet its work to nonunion, out-of-town shops, and union men & women had been selling stuffed dates, shining shoes, going on relief. Principal union advantage: wealthy, fair-minded Trucker James Patrick Clarke is to arbitrate disputes, see to it that Philco keeps most of its production in Philadelphia...
...aeronautical visionaries are prepared to admit the feasibility of a 900 m.p.h. airplane, 120 m.p.h. faster than the speed of sound, twice as fast as man has ever flown, nearly thrice as fast as man has traveled on land (see p. 47). But Russian-born Inventor Ivan Eremeef, Philadelphia protégé of Orchestra-man Leopold Stokowski, was last week tinkering with a model for just such a craft. Inventor Eremeef's wingless, finned, torpedo-like conception, carrying two small cannon and four hours' fuel supply, would zip 1,000 miles or more to bombard an enemy...
...years ago Philadelphia's Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology managed to raise a few opossums in captivity. This year 285 young were born on its farm. From his study of these. Edward McCrady Jr. last week published a monograph on The Embryology of the Opossum, which brought to an end one controversy, may well start a few more...
...union baseball teams. Twenty-one men's and 20 women's basketball teams compete for the Dubinsky Cup (offered by President David Dubinsky), the Hochman Trophy. In Fall River, Mass., a union local has a rifle team, teaches men and women workers to shoot straight. In Philadelphia is a union riding club. "Once," says the union, "it might have been said that horseback riding was too good for the common people, but the I. L. G. W. U. feels that nothing is too good for workers...
...conference opened inauspiciously. Expecting a fine turnout, the association hired Pittsburgh's biggest hall, Syria Mosque. At the first session, attend ance was to the mosque's capacity as Mr. Emery's $50,000 business is to U. S. Steel Corp. A Philadelphia cloak & suit man named Charles Bloome offered a resolution to move the convention downtown so that he could save 75? cab fare each way. Mr. Emery: "Why can't five delegates ride in the same cab?" Mr. Bloome: "No five small businessmen could ride 75? worth together without getting in a fight." Thereupon...