Word: pittsburgh
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...days. The court's 8-to-1 decision (Justice William O. Douglas dissenting) cut tersely through the United Steelworkers' lengthy legal challenge, which had already won more than two weeks' delay in the courts. In upholding the injunction handed down by the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh Oct. 21 and affirmed six days later by the Circuit Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court ruled solidly on the three main points raised by the union in its appeal...
Within hours of the court's decision, three loaded ore boats sailed out of Duluth harbor for the steel centers; within two hours maintenance workers began heating up coke ovens in Pittsburgh. By midweek the first pig iron would pour down white-hot from ten-story-high blast furnaces, thence become raw steel within less than 24 hours, bars and sheets within a week or so. Despite these quick reactions, the injunction was little more than an 80-day aspirin for an economy aching for a real cure of the steel crisis...
Barely three hours after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Taft-Hartley steel injunction (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), workers were on their way back to the mills. In Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and other steel centers across the U.S., the millwrights, pipe fitters and laborers moved in to repair and start up the equipment that stood idle through the 116 days of the longest industry-wide steel strike in history. How long would it take for the steel industry to get back into full-scale operation...
...from reel to reel. Down to his last $17, he was rescued by Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek, who told the army to get him some electrical equipment. For his Orpheus, Camus hired a handsome Brazilian futebol player named Breno Mello, for his Eurydice an unknown dancer from Pittsburgh with serenely lovely looks and a name that nobody could possibly forget: Marpessa Dawn. "The poverty," says Camus, "was not such a bad thing in the long run. I spent so much time trailing around on foot, just looking, that in the end I had a deep awareness of Brazil...
...very pleased at being considered for the Harvard position," Erikson stated yesterday in Pittsburgh. He will make no final plans, however, until he is confirmed by the Corporation...