Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steelworkers' Chief David J. McDonald reached across a table in Pittsburgh's Hotel William Penn one day last week and handed a sheaf of papers to Clifford Hood, president of U.S. Steel. Thus the steelmakers opened negotiations for a new contract. There was nothing new or unexpected in the union's 22 contract demands-a guaranteed annual wage, "substantial" wage increases, premium pay for weekend work-and the first session brought out no fireworks. Nevertheless the session made history. Sitting around the table were representatives not only from giant U.S. Steel but from Bethlehem and Republic...
This week the talks went on in a setting deliberately chosen by both sides to speed an early settlement and beat the June 30 strike deadline. The negotiators are moving to Manhattan, away from Pittsburgh and intense local pressures. In place of massive negotiating committees, each side has slimmed itself to a four-man team, with Stephens heading the industry group (U.S. Steel, Bethlehem, Republic, Jones & Laughlin, Inland, and Youngstown Sheet & Tube) and McDonald heading the union bargainers...
...first time the Pittsburgh Pirates' First Baseman Dale Long came to bat in a game with the Phillies, he missed a home run by inches; his long drive to right bounced off the barrier for a double. In two more tries, Long belted two more shots that Philly outfielders just managed to grab. Then he got the range. In the eighth inning, he walloped the ball a country mile for his seventh home run in seven consecutive games, a major-league record that broke the six-game mark held by the St. Louis Browns' Ken Williams, the Giants...
...Screen Gems, the TV subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, hopes to raise a contented crop of future television playwrights. The fertilization: scholarship grants for budding authors have already been assigned to Fordham University and the universities of North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Iowa...
...hotel history. Using a dime-store pen, Sheraton Corp.'s President Ernest Henderson and Vice President Robert L. Moore signed an agreement to buy the 22-hotel Eppley chain, largest and oldest personally owned hotel group in the U.S. Its 22 properties in six states range from Pittsburgh's 1,500-room William Penn to the 123-room Tallcorn in Marshalltown, Iowa. Price: $30 million. (In the biggest deal, Conrad Hilton paid $78 million for the Statler chain...