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...oak-paneled Park Avenue office one morning last week, Manhattan Adman Emerson Foote chewed gum and chain-smoked Lucky Strikes while he waited impatiently for the reporters to crowd into his press conference. Then he quietly dropped his bombshell. He announced that high-powered Foote, Cone & Belding, Inc. had resigned its $12,000,000-a-year account as advertising agent for The American Tobacco...
While the Administration was preparing to use the Taft-Hartley Act in the coal strike (see above), Taft-Hartley machinery was already at work on two other strike fronts: at the Oak Ridge atom plant, where a labor dispute threatened the heart of U.S. war strength; in the meat-packing industry, where a walkout of packinghouse workers had halved the nation's meat supply...
...Oak Ridge contains three plants: X-io, Y12, K-25. At X-io, building-trade workers (carpenters, plumbers, etc.) are members of A.F.L.'s new Atomic Trades and Labor Council. Y-12 is unorganized. K-25 is organized by C.I.O.'s United Chemical Workers...
...Radioactive isotopes, produced at Oak Ridge, Term., are now being shipped by the U.S. to Argentina, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, Italy, Peru, Sweden. Russia asked for isotopes, but apparently dropped the idea when she learned the conditions: reports twice a year, free inspection by interested scientists...
...Theodate Pope Riddle, domineering daughter of a steel millionaire and wife of a onetime U.S. Ambassador to czarist Russia. An admirer of the medieval and a semiprofessional architect, she personally sidewalk-superintended the construction of Avon Old Farms, twelve miles out of Hartford. Only hand-hewn stone and oak were used, and bricklayers had to rip out rows of crude bricks because they laid them in too straight to suit Mrs. Riddle (it cost her $125,000 to do over the dining-hall roof...