Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This "float process" is the invention of Pilkington Bros. Ltd., at St. Helens, Lancashire, England, and they have licensed the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company...
...your story [July 12] on increasing productivity in American industry, you refer to a major innovation at Pittsburgh Plate Glass in setting up a "float process" that will "double productive capacity by adding only 100 men to its current work force...
...members of the young union took part in the U.S.'s first nationwide strike, which erupted when depression-hit railroads imposed wage cuts. Railroad workers struck in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Reading, Louisville, Chicago. Strikers destroyed locomotives, fought with antistrike citizens, finally gave up after battling state and federal troops. Chastened by bloodshed and defeat, the Firemen two years later adopted a resolution declaring that the union would "ignore strikes and hereafter settle our grievances with our employers by arbitration...
Mosquitoes & TV. Going into the season's second half, no fewer than twelve of the 20 big-league clubs were in the throes of attendance slumps. Ticket sales are 94,426 off last year's midseason mark in Milwaukee. 105,211 in Pittsburgh, 167,257 in Cleveland. Last year's box-office leaders, the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers, both report declines: 14,270 fro the Yanks, 38,935 for the Dodgers. Total big-league attendance is down 126,158, and the figure would be far worse except for Boston-where the surprising...
Expanding its plant at Cumberland, Md., Pittsburgh Plate Glass is setting up a "float process" that will produce high-quality plate by floating molten glass on a pool of molten tin. Since the process requires no expensive grinders, buffers or polishers, the company will be able to double productive capacity by adding only 100 men to its current work force...