Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outdoor Girl. In London, Paula Perks quit her job in a perfume shop, explained that the smell "got me down," went back to pig farming...
...rehearsal was over; the guest conductor stepped down from the podium. Said Maestro Toscanini, who had been sitting quietly in a back seat scrutinizing the score: "Now! That man really knows how to play that music ... I play it like a pig!" The little knot of courtiers around Toscanini hastened to assure him that it wasn't so. The old man turned on them with one of his sudden, unpredictable thunderclaps: "Oh, so you think I don't know music?" As he marched off he sputtered: "The trouble with all of you is-you have all been poisoned...
...General Motors announced that it would lay off some 200,000 workers-more than half its total force-for at least a week, because of steel and pig-iron shortages. The motor industry, Ward's Automotive Reports said, would make about 265,000 fewer cars and trucks this quarter than expected...
...witnesses, began with International Detrola Corp., which needed steel for its radios and phonographs. To get a supply, Detrola, in August 1946, bought the Newport Rolling Mill at Newport, Ky. But Detrola's President C. Russell Feldman soon found that he still had a problem : he had no pig iron to make his steel. So, he told the committee, he made a deal with Kaiser-Frazer Corp. to trade finished steel for K-F's pig iron. (He also made another deal, the committee found, with Cincinnati's David J. Joseph...
...Wilmington, N.C., 15 Liberty ships, loaded with food and fuel for Italy, remained tied up at the docks. No coal. Around the country, open hearth furnaces began to shut down. Production of pig iron, the raw material of industry, gradually declined. Washington extended its 25% cut in coal-burning passenger locomotives to the country's coal-burning freight engines. Some 400,000 soft-coal miners had already lost $60 million in wages. At week's end the coal strike was in its 14th...