Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five of the windows in the office of T. Mellon & Sons are made of opaque, leaded glass which shuts out the contradictions of Pittsburgh's ugly business district. But a sixth window of clear glass opens like an eye in the blackened granite face of the old Union Trust Co. building on Grant Street, from which the Mellons run their family interests. In this window, at odd moments over the past fortnight, appeared an erect, grey-haired man in a well-tailored suit. Richard King Mellon was looking down into a large hole between Fifth Avenue and Oliver Avenue...
...pile driver banged, ringing in the heads of downtown office workers, rattling the windows in Kaufmann's department store, keeping guests awake in the William Penn Hotel, echoing through the narrow canyons of Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle. Blasting intermittently shook the slab-side Mellon National Bank and Trust Co. which had hardly trembled through the depression...
They formed the Union Transfer and Trust Co. in order to integrate their expanding corporate interests (coal, aluminum, steel, glass, insurance, realty, street railways). Out of the Union Trust grew the Mellon National Bank. And out of it all came the wealth of the Mellons. In 1933, the affable R.B. died; in 1937, Andy...
From the open eye in the wall of the Union Trust, R. K. Mellon could look out on this reassuring vision. Here in $38 million of new buildings, Pittsburgh was asserting its iron-jawed belief in itself, and its iron-jawed confidence that it could set things right. The Allegheny Conference was an experiment in a new and wiser capitalism-working to repair the damage done by the purposeful haste and thoughtlessness of the old empire builders. If capitalism couldn't do it, the men of Pittsburgh were convinced, no one else could...
...principally to this trust Mather credits the widespread loyalty that he says the Yugoslavs bear toward their boss. Mather said the people really believe Tito is trying to improve their welfare, and thus, he said, "slogans like 'We are Tito's, and Tito is Ours' really ring true...