Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleased to see my wife Roni pictured in full-page color in TIME. The "image of the foetus" on the TV screen has since developed into a beautiful baby girl, named Stacey Wynn, born Aug. 20 in Pittsburgh. We are proud to be the only ones in our neighborhood to have a baby album starting off with a picture at age minus two months...
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...Filed in Pittsburgh's federal district court, the Justice Department's complaint charged that some of the companies .had huddled between November 1960 and mid-1962 to "fix, stabilize and maintain" artificially high prices for inexpensive vitreous-china fixtures, involving some $30 million in sales a year; another group had agreed, beginning in 1962, to drop low-priced (and low-profit) lines of equipment while hiking the tag on the more expensive models, involving about $1 billion in sales all told; company executives had reached their agreements and planned staggered publication of new price lists "in order...
Chicago's Inland Steel Co. has put 233 women on its production lines for the first time since World War II, and the Jewel Tea Co. has hired women as butchers to supplement its draft-depleted supply of manpower. Pittsburgh copper fabricators have had so much of their output pre-empted by the Pentagon that they cannot meet civilian demand for plumbing equipment. Appliance manufacturers, hoping that buyers will not notice the difference, have begun to trim a few inches off their electrical cords. Shoemakers have cut back production of cowboy boots to devote full time to combat boots...
Despite all this, the economy is not so deeply involved in Viet Nam that industry is afraid of peace. Says President Ralph W. Rawson of Firth-Sterling Inc., a Pittsburgh manufacturer of steel for machine tools: "If the war were concluded tomorrow, I think we'd experience a 10% drop in business, but the backlog would be back where it now is within one year." Adds Charles Ducommun, president of Ducommun Inc., a Los Angeles metal supply firm: "A peace market would be a bull market, and most businessmen would happily adjust to it." Manufacturers commonly believe that they...