Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend of Dr. Ralph Robertson Mellon in Pittsburgh lay dying from blood poisoning caused by streptococcus. In despair, Dr. Mellon gave him a dose of prontosil (sulfanilamide), a German drug never before tried on human beings in the U. S. To his joy, the dying man made a rapid recovery. That was three years...
...times in protected water. Compare this with the conditions in Minnesota, for example, where they have to mine the ore, then take it by rail to the docks, load it into the ore carriers, then unload at the foot of the lakes, then ship by rail to Pittsburgh, the principal centre of processing, and then load the finished product on cars and either ship it to the Atlantic Coast for water shipment to the Pacific Coast markets, or ship by rail nearly 3,000 miles...
...good news came just ten days after its potent Pittsburgh competitor, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., announced a 6% November wage bonus, compared to 4% in October for its 45,000 employes. Westinghouse's bonus system, adopted in 1936, boosts wages 1% for each $60,000 by which average monthly earnings for the previous three months exceed $600,000, cuts them 1% for every $60,000 below this par. Westinghouse's profit-sharing payments to Nov. 1 this year...
...Managing Editor will be Alfred J. Gilbert '41 of Adams House and New York City. He succeeds Sheffield West '40. Assuming the Editorial Chairmanship, previously held by Garfield Horn '40, is Richard D. Edwards '40 of Leverett House and Pittsburgh...
Charles P. Price '41, Pittsburgh...