Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other industries, a few of the biggest companies have also banded together for mutual protection. Libby-Owens-Ford and Pittsburgh Plate Glass, which comprise 95% of the plate-glass industry, got tired of seeing their wage scales leapfrog because of individual bargaining, feel that they have done much better since they decided to bargain together after a strike in 1936. Said a Pittsburgh Plate Glass executive: "We saw it as a means of protecting ourselves against the union's whipsawing tactics...
...MORAN Pittsburgh...
Disappearing Labels. Some downtown churches such as First English Evangelical in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle have had to turn themselves into "friendliness" churches, reaching out among the 9-to-5 weekday population around them for what congregations they can get. Lutherans in the mushrooming suburb of North Hollywood have organized a drive-in church. Pastor Glen E. Pierson of Manhattan's 92-year-old Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church describes a process that is taking place all over the U.S. when he says: "We used to be thought of by our own members, as well as by people...
...Pittsburgh...
...With that scarcely opportune statement, Dilworth instantly found himself besieged by I) Philadelphia's strong Democratic machine-led by Congressman William J. Green Jr. and City Democratic Leader James Clark-which had been fighting to keep the mayor from announcing for the governor's race, and 2) Pittsburgh's mayor and Democratic Kingmaker David Lawrence, a longtime Dilworth supporter but strictly a hands-off-Red-China hand. At week's end, Dick Dilworth cleared his throat and declared that he does not care to leave Philadelphia, might even want to run again for mayor come...