Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were always a number of Republican labor leaders to endorse their party's candidate. It is significant that this year only one president of an international union, McFetridge of the Building Service Employees, endorsed the Republican nominee. Lewis was strongly against Truman, it is true, but Dewey's Pittsburgh labor speech called forth almost equal invective. For the first time, there was no prominent labor leader, such as Mr. Hutchinson who had filled the job previously, to be the head of a Republican labor committee. The Taft-Hartley law alienated virtually all labor leadership from the Republican party...
Deal for Steel? General Motors Corp. announced that it would build two plants near Pittsburgh, one for "blanking" (cutting) steel, the other (a $13 million factory) for stamping out Fisher Bodies. G.M.'s official reason was that it needed a body assembly plant in the Pittsburgh area. But automakers thought there was another reason. They gossiped that G.M. had made a shrewd deal with Pittsburgh steelmen, who are worried that the decision on basing points (TIME, July 19) will make it hard for Pittsburgh to sell steel when the shortage is over. The steelmen reportedly had promised G.M. plenty...
Glass Sandwich. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. announced a new "folding glass," that can be collapsed like an accordion. It is made of thick glass sections joined together by a flexible airtight plastic. First use: in large, full-vision rear windows in the '49 Hudson convertible...
Fundamentally, this Wintergreen, son of a Lower East Side song writer and a Pittsburgh playwright, was "A Man's Man," and he was said to "love the Irish and the Jews." When John P. was taking the stump, what man or woman was there who could refuse to shout his campaign slogans: "Even Your Dog Loves John P. Wintergreen" and "John P. Wintergreen--The Flavor Lasts." Who could resist the onslaught of goose pimples when John mounted the platform and began to tell a nation of his dreams of "The Full Dinner Jacket...
Compared to the largesse that soda-pop barons, pearl merchants and encyclopedia publishers scatter for works of art, the prizes from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute are penny ante stuff. First prize at the Carnegie amounts to only $1,500, but it is still the most honorable award of the season...