Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also settled was a strike in the Aluminum Co. of America plant at New Kensington, Pa. When middleaged, belligerent Employe Fred Ross objected to paying up his union dues and the management refused to cooperate by firing him, union men struck. Idle for a week were 7,500 men. Again Murray and Hillman interceded. Ross was transferred to the company's plant at Logan's Ferry. C. I. O. strikers, having lost an estimated $250,000 in wages, returned to their jobs, resumed work on aluminum orders required in defense production...
...SENTIMENTAL NOVEL IN AMERICA 1789-1860 - Herbert Ross ] Brown -Duke University Press...
...America is now wholly given over to a d-d mob of scribbling women," growled staid Nathaniel Hawthorne some years before the Civil War. Many of the novels which they produced, says Bowdoin Professor Herbert Ross Brown, "deserve to appear on any list of the world's worst fiction." Yet he feels that these novels of "handkerchiefly" feeling deserve his 400-page study as clues to the early literary aspirations of the U. S., which have something of the charm of Currier & Ives prints...
Chipp, Press and Ross, Cambridge custom clothing's big three, have a unique business technique. The three-button-natural-shoulder-loose-fitting long coats which they produce are, in their eyes, works of art, and they should be sold as such. The ordinary good tailor won't sell a suit unless it fits well; he's a piker compared with the Mount A. Street trio. They won't sell a suit unless it fits the personality of the buyer. Every piece of clothing that goes out of the little brick shops is designed to fill a definite function...
...group" motto is the real secret of the custom tailor. It is a group made up of boys who have known each other as children, gone to the same schools, become even closer in college and who will stick together in the business world after college. Chipp, Press and Ross sell them blazers while they are still in school, follow up this acquaintanceship from the time they graduate till they die . . . and more often than not, a man has mortgaged his soul to the friendly tailor with the Glen Urquhart plaids, Vavasseur silks, and hand-woven Shetlands long before that...