Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party-liners rolled on. Burly President Fitzgerald rode victoriously into another term by a vote of 2,335 to 1,500; Secretary-Treasurer Julius Emspak and James J. Matles, the U.E.'s top organizer, rode back in with him. Then the triumphant triumvirate threw down a six-point ultimatum to Phil Murray. Its net: punish other C.I.O. unions for "raiding" U.E. membership ranks-or else...
...Stop lying, Fitzgerald," screamed Carey at one point. "The C.I.O. helped build labor-you Communists are against labor . . . I tell you, Fitzgerald, you're not going to take the U.E. out of the C.I.O...
...future. In R. K. Mellon's mind's eye was the vision of a whole new city-a second skyscraper, the $10 million, 30-story Alcoa building rising beside a new $4,000,000 green park, other new office buildings rising on the Triangle's point. It was a vision of a city cleared of drab relics of half a century, cured of its traffic congestions, freed of the pollution of its rivers and the poison of its soot-heavy air, a city better housed. The hammering of the pile driver was the nervous pulse...
...strand began in the middle of the 19th Century when Thomas Mellon left his father's farm at nearby Poverty Point and on Smithfield Street hung out his shingle as a lawyer. He knew all the laws on foreclosures and he traded in other men's recklessness. In 1870 he had founded T. Mellon & Sons and had gone into private banking. Into this enterprise went two of his shrewdest sons-Andrew William and Richard Beatty...
...only was Pittsburgh becoming the most unlivable city in the U.S.; Pittsburgh's domination of the steel world was literally at stake. Markets for steel had moved westward. The Supreme Court's decision outlawing the basing-point system (by which Pittsburgh steel plants had absorbed freight costs to distant markets) had caused consternation among steelmen. Pittsburgh, with much of its equipment overworked and worn out by the war, was faced with determined competition from other steel centers; Chicago, with less steelmaking capacity, had actually outproduced...