Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Construction, General Labor & MaterialHandlers Union (A. F. of L.) had a closed-shop contract for work onpart of Pennsylvania's new, $60,000,000 Dream Highway (Harrisburg to Pittsburgh). This meant that farmers in Somerset County, who do spare-time work on the roads for extra cash, had to join the union and pay $15 initiation fees in order to get jobs. Six-foot, two-inch Farmer Victor Glessner organized his fellows, smashed the union's county headquarters, ran two organizers away, had another indicted for waving a pistol at protesting ruralites. Having effectively opened the closed shop...
Steel. Far from gay, however, was the tory of U. S. Steel Corp. Big Steel has run at lower percent of capacity than the independents, has faced bitter price competition in the profitable (to others) Detroit steel market, has had much of its capacity in Pittsburgh and Chicago idle because of stagnant demand for capital goods. Last quarter it made only 18? a share on its preferred stock, grimly paid holders the $1.75 coming to them: the difference, $5,644,368 (nearly half the size of Chrysler's profit for the quarter), came out of a generation of accumulated...
...Louis 7, New York 5; Brooklyn 6, Chicago 3; Pittsburgh 10, Philadelphia 7; Cincinnati 5, Boston 4 (13 innings...
...York 6, St. Louis 3; Brooklyn 6, Chicago 2; Pittsburgh 6; Philadelphia 4; Cincinnati at Boston postponed, rain and cold weather...
Philadelphia 4, Chicago 1; New Yrok 6, Cincinnati 4; St. Louis at Boston and Pittsburgh at Brookyn postponed, cold weather...