Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young unknown, James B. Carey, astounded organized labor and shocked the radio industry five years ago by wangling a contract for his local union with Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. (Philco). Last week up-&-coming Mr. Carey, having soared to high place in C. I. O. as president of its United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers, had to take a setback in the plant where he got his start...
After a four-month shutdown and quarrel over new contract terms, Philco re-opened part of its vast Philadelphia factory. Back to work went 500 of the 13,000 who worked there at Philco's peak. They had lost their union shop for a weaker hiring clause giving preference to union workers; their wages were cut 9? an hour for men, 7? for women; their hours were up from 36 to 40 per week...
...Boston Bees twice subdued the revamped St. Louis Cardinals yesterday by scores of 6 to 5 and 4 to 1 in Boston yesterday. Other scores: NATIONAL--Pittsburgh 6, Brooklyn 0; Pittsburgh 11, Brooklyn 6; New York 6, Cincinnati 1; New York 2, Cincinnati 1; Chicago 4, Philadelphia 0; Chicago 2, Philadelphia 1. AMERICAN--New York 7, Chicago...
Curious about the mental effects of short-wave radiation, Dr. Hughbert Clayton Hamilton of Philadelphia's Temple University tried heating rats. Last week he described his experiment to the American Psychological Association meeting at Columbus, Ohio. He divided the rats into two groups of 21 each, sent each group through a U-shaped maze once a day for 100 days. Every animal in the first group was subjected to short-wave radiation for two minutes, before each of the first 45 trials. Then temperatures were raised from 99.5 to 103 or 104.5° F. No radiation was given this...
Surgeons all over the U. S. agree that 66-year-old Dr. William Wayne Babcock of Philadelphia's Temple University can take it on the chin. Four years ago he violated medical taboo, trusted no one more than himself to operate on his wife. When his young son died, with steady hand Professor Babcock performed the autopsy. Last week Dental Survey described a striking operation which Dr. Babcock originated for pushing forward a receding lower jaw, giving a patient a firmer looking profile than he was born with...