Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good Politics, Good Business. Pittsburgh, like every other city, had a list of hopeful plans waiting; some of them dated as far back as 1910. But in Pittsburgh a "must" from a Mellon list gets done, especially when the Mellon himself gets busy and sees that it is done. R. K. Mellon took up his ideas with his colleagues around the Duquesne Club: such men as Pickleman H. J. ("Jack") Heinz II, Edgar Kaufmann of Kaufmann Department Store, U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless, Alcoa's Roy Hunt. Some of them products of a new age, all of them...
...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...
...Expedite." R. K. Mellon and his associates formed the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, a sort of umbrella organization to throw over the civic enterprises already in existence, and added new plans of their own. Then they enlisted David Lawrence, Pittsburgh's Democratic mayor, as a bridge to the Democrats and to Pittsburgh labor. "We expedite. We get things into motion," was R. K. Mellon's description of the Allegheny Conference...
Through the state legislature, Mellon, Lawrence & friends jammed a parcel of bills for countywide smoke control, sewage disposal, better highways, higher taxes. Pittsburgh only gradually became aware of what was happening. But in three years, much...
...Floods, No Smog. The air had been fairly well cleared of smoke-Pittsburghers were sharply aware of that. There was 39% more sunlight: a white shirt could be worn decently a whole day. Locomotives were allowed by law to give off nothing worse than No. 2 smoke (not as white as No. 1, but not nearly as black as No. 4). Householders were forced to burn smokeless fuel. When fog settled over Pittsburgh, it was no longer smog...