Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...follow the Northern Presbyterians (TIME, June 6) in putting women in the pulpit, and voted to defer the issue for at least a year. It would widen the gap between the Reform and the Conservative and Orthodox branches of Judaism, and, said Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof of Pittsburgh, would be "too great and too needless a break with tradition...
Some companies went to work on their own. Koppers picked a "reorganization point" outside Pittsburgh, stocked nearby bank vaults with microfilms of vital company records, and instructed key personnel to head for this emergency shelter at the first sign of attack. Standard Oil (NewJersey) set up an alternate office 60 to 75 miles outside New York City to feed, sleep and serve as GHQ for 100 top executives. Curtiss-Wright bought 84 square miles in north central Pennsylvania to assemble jet engines and 5,000 acres in New Jersey's Ramapo Hills for a bombproof headquarters. The petroleum industry...
General Matthew B. Ridgway, 60, retiring Army Chief of Staff, was elected chairman of the board of trustees of Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, replacing Dr. Edward Weidlein, 67, who continues as president. Ridgeway, having thus turned down a bid to head Henry Kaiser's Argentine operations (TIME, May 2), will coordinate and direct policy of the nonprofit research organization, founded in 1913 by Banker-Industrialists Andrew and Richard B. Mellon, to work with industry in seeking "through . . . research in science . . . results that are of advantage to society...
This Is Your Life. In Pittsburgh, police arrested James V. Spagnola, reported that he used a sledge hammer, hatchet and shears on the furnishings of his estranged wife's home while she was at work, shut off the gas and cut the power lines and scrawled on the living-room mirror: "This is your home, Doll...
COAL MERGER between Chicago's Peabody Coal Co. and the Sinclair group of coal companies will form the nation's second biggest commercial producer, right behind the giant Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. Peabody will get the Sinclair group for $34 million, exchange its stock for stock of the eight companies making up the combine. Joint sales: some 22 million tons of bituminous coal annually v. 25 million tons for Pittsburgh Consolidation...