Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp gusts. Day by day the muckrakers mocked J.D.R. Jr.'s 30? lunches, his marriage to Abby Aldrich (CROESUS CAPTURED), his regular talks to the men's Bible class of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. "With his hereditary grip on a nation's pocketbook," sneered the Pittsburgh Press, "his talks on spiritual matters are a tax on piety." From the pulpit of St. Bartholomew's, the Episcopal Bishop of Michigan snorted: "The odor . . . smacks strongly of crude petroleum...
...Pittsburgh. The reason you may notice in the addition to the adjoining masthead : TIME is opening a new U.S. news bureau, the eleventh to be established since TIME'S first permanent editorial outpost was set up in Chicago in 1929 (before that, Henry Cabot Lodge, now U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., had been a part-time correspondent in Washington). Don Connery is the new Pittsburgh bureau chief...
...Covering Pittsburgh, TIME staffers have been regular visitors. But now with Connery, a reporter of inexhaustible energy and curiosity in our newest bureau, we take up residence in the booming city at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela...
BIGGEST IRON PIPEMAKER, Pittsburgh's A. M. Byers Co. (nine-month net sales: $23 million), will be taken over by Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., fifth biggest U.S. rubber company. In stock swap after long negotiations, General Tire has acquired about 75% of Byers' stock, will expand production and push it into General's booming plastics business...
...Avery C. (for Comfort) Adams, 58, moved up from president and chief executive of the nation's 13th-ranking steel company, Pittsburgh Steel (ingot capacity: 1.3 million tons), to the presidency of the fourth largest, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (ingot capacity: 6.2 million tons). Yaleman Adams, a slender six-footer, started as an open-hearth laborer in 1919 at the old Trumbull Steel Co., where he worked up to assistant general sales manager. Later, he held vice-presidencies with Inland Steel Co., U.S. Steel Corp., Portsmouth Steel Corp., Detroit Steel Corp. Adams caught the fancy of Jones & Laughlin...