Word: pittsburghs
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...million sq. ft. of float glass, which is now used for windshields in nearly all of the 2,000,000 cars made in Britain each year. Most of the world's major glass producers have obtained licenses to make glass according to Pilkington's patented process. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., the first licensee, is already floating out glass...
...Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass. Owens-Corning did much of the original research on commercial glass fibers, owns the well-known Fiberglas trademark. Under a 1949 consent decree, the company agreed to release some patents and license others. Fiber glass, as a result, is now produced by Johns-Manville, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, and several other companies...
...quandary at the Methodist General Conference in Pittsburgh last May was when and how to integrate the all-Negro Central Jurisdiction. Being separate-but-equal, the Central Jurisdiction gave position and status to Negro clergymen, some of whom feared loss of jobs and rank if it were abolished. The conference settled for giving white jurisdictions a leisurely four years to plan for the incorporation of Negro churches...
Since then, Capitol, Victor and Vanguard have charged into the market. Capitol dubbed its revivals Paperback Classics ($1.98 for mono, $2.98 for stereo). Among the highlights are a rousing Brahms First Symphony with William Steinberg conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony, and a brace of Beethoven piano sonatas, the "Appassionato" and "Waldstein," masterfully played by Pianists John Browning and Rudolf Firkusny respectively...
Guerrilla Warfare. Those lawyers who condone civil disobedience do so on very narrow grounds. Civil disobedience is "just" only when all legal redress has been closed-a position taken last week by the Lutheran Church in America at its biennial convention in Pittsburgh. "If and when the means of legal recourse have been exhausted or have been demonstrably inadequate," resolved the church, "Christians may then choose to serve the cause of racial justice by disobeying a law that clearly involves the violation of their obligations as Christians...