Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...standing at the window of an apartment on Chicago's upper West Side, put his hand to his hat and tilted it. Two figures loitering on a porch across the street immediately began firing with repeating shotguns at two men who had emerged from a fish shop and were entering a parked automobile. The targets died at once, torn and streaming with slug wounds. They were identified as John ("Bowlegs") Oliveri and Joseph Salamone, familiar to the police as members of the local alcohol "racket." Oliveri had lately joined the Capone "mob," deserting a rival faction. . . . That night...
...study of union, non-union and open shop labor conditions that Vice President Staunton B. Peck of the Link-Belt Co. concluded last week for the National Association of Manufacturers, naturally hoped to put a rosy lacquer on the open shop principle of employing labor, that is, of making no discrimination against union or non-union labor, just so that the union organizations do not pester the employers...
...committee analyzed the employment records of 187,390 U. S. manufacturing plants, employing 8,383,261 wage earners. Building, mining and transportation industries were ignored. Their millions of workers are almost entirely unionized, and their inclusion in the National Association of Manufacturers' statistics would distort the open shop picture. _ Nonetheless, Mr. Peck's findings were significant. In the industries investigated only 13.7% of the plants employed only union help, and these people comprised only 7.4% of those employed in all the especially picked factories. Non-union factories numbered 11.%, their employes 11.3% There remained the shining open shop...
Henry Ford emerged from a 1928 model Ford sedan to browse in the antique shop of Mrs. L. A. Eaton at Conneaut, Ohio. His browsing cost him $1,100; cost Mrs. Eaton practically her entire stock. Strict prohibitionist, Collector Ford defied the Volstead law, bought a bottle of Milwaukee beer, vintage 1848. Two days later Ford employes celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Ford Motor Co. by working...
Walter Percy Chrysler is from Kansas.* He was a shop helper; he became a mechanic, a superintendent, a general manager. When William Crapo Durant was first ousted from General Motors control (1911; again 1920) and Charles W. Nash (now chairman of Nash Motors) became General Motors president, Engineer Chrysler became Buick's general manager. He developed the steel body for Buicks; increased the output, cut production costs...